Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda: chatbots are the MS-DOS era of AI interfaces
a16z · x · 2026-10-21
Wabi founder Eugenia Kuyda argues that today's chatbots are the "MS-DOS era" of AI interfaces, with a "Windows/MacOS moment" still ahead.
Key points from her interview with a16z: most people use ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude only for simple tasks like search, writing and homework, despite far richer model capabilities — evidence of an interface problem rather than a capability problem. She believes a simpler product is needed to let everyone discover what models can already do, and predicts single-player text-only AI will be remembered as the "terminal era" of AI interfaces.
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