Jaden Schaefer

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So the thing that I think is really interesting is kind of this idea right now that all of the AI-powered apps are really struggling to keep long-term, you know, people engaged, long-term retention on the apps.

And I think there's a couple problems with this as someone that has built AI-powered apps in the past and as someone that is, you know, actively working in an AI startup, an AI box and a company.

I can understand where a lot of this challenge is.

And that is, I think, with AI coming out and the power of AI being so incredible, I think we definitely had a really big wave, especially in the last couple of years where there was a lot of concepts of what AI could do and would be able to do.

And a lot of people, I think, overhyped or oversold their apps.

And I think that's going to be the primary driver of low retention.

In addition, I do think that like right now I try probably 10 times as much software as I have over the last, you know, five, 10 years working in the industry.

And so I think right now we just try so much more and then we kind of settle on what works best.

I think if you're a developer and you're creating a tool with AI in it, you have one shot really for someone to go try your tool and for it to wow them and for them to be impressed and be like, OK, I will.

Keep this as part of my long-term tool belt of the tools I use.

If they try it and it flops, there's a bunch of tools from big companies that I've tried in the past.

They flopped and I haven't gone back.

I think one of those examples would be something like Runway for Video.