Bosworth predicts developer ecosystems will emerge around failed AI query requests
Andrew Bosworth · What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech · Apr 24, 2025 · at 18:23
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth explains how AI agent platforms will connect developers to consumer demand by surfacing failed user intent queries.
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“What's gonna happen is there's gonna become a query stream of people using AI to do things and the AI will fail. Repeatedly in certain areas because that's a type of functionality that is currently behind some kind of an app wall, and there's no. There's no bridge that's been built.”
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