Jeffrey: AI Terminal Prompts Cannot Replace Last-Mile Product Development
Corey Jeffrey · Building High-Growth Tech Ventures in the AI Era with Kory Jeffrey of Inovia Capital · Aug 27, 2026 · at 36:38
Inovia Capital partner Corey Jeffrey discusses the limitations of AI interfaces and why terminal-style prompts will not replace complex software applications.
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“I don't subscribe to the view that we're all going to sit at like a blinking terminal line with that blinking empty cursor and you'll be able to type anything in and it'll just happen, right? I think that that's I think that is an oversimplification of how hard the last mile of product development is to how complex, you know these systems are and, you know, just how hard it's very simple things are, right?”
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