Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system
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When a consumer platform CEO talks about an AI-native OS, they're telegraphing a future where agents are first-class citizens in product design, not just features bolted onto apps. If you're building for consumers, start mapping which of your flows could be owned end-to-end by an agent instead of a user tap sequence.
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