All great founders are kept awake by the same thing: the gap between their vision of what's possible and the painful reality of what exists today.

Allow me to make an observation. Next time, someone tells you Indian don’t value time, ask them if they understand about the concept of monochronic and polychronic cultures. There are cultures that measure an outcome on more axes than the time and effort invested. India is one of them. It is important that you understand this about India lest you develop an inescapable inferiority complex about your own people indexing on someone slinging their half cooked rhetoric built up their lack of serious education.

Founder: I don't want my Indian customers to choose my cheapest plan! Marketer: Say no more. 👇

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Right now, AI’s biggest UX problem is our own lack of imagination. Chatbots were the first breakthrough interface for AI. You type, it responds. Simple. Intuitive. Easy to grasp. But that simplicity came at a cost. It locked AI into a human-shaped box. It made people think LLMs are just virtual assistants, digital workers, or chat-based productivity tools. That’s the biggest lie in AI right now. LLMs aren’t just another interface. They aren’t just a faster way to type things, answer questions, or process text. They are an alien intelligence. A different way of thinking, predicting, and generating. They are something new. But we keep trying to jam them into old metaphors. Right now, most AI products are boring because they’re just chatbots wearing different skins. A text field. A response. Maybe a few integrations, but at their core, they’re all the same. The AI is locked behind the interface instead of being woven into the product itself. The best AI products of the future won’t look like a conversation. They won’t feel like assistants. They won’t be forced into the chatbot mold just because that was the easiest starting point. They’ll be interfaces that think. Products that predict what you need before you ask. Systems that operate on a completely different plane of interaction. More like an extension of your mind than a tool you manually prompt. The first era of AI UX was about familiarity. The next era will be about breaking free from it. The chatbot era was the training wheels. Now it’s time to throw them away.