Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg (마크 저커버그) said many AI agents currently on the market remain too complicated for ordinary users.

Business Insider reported on May 1 that Zuckerberg said on Meta’s first-quarter earnings conference call that many AI agents fail the so-called “mother test.”

“There are a lot of agents out there, but there aren’t many agents at a level that I want to tell my mother about,” Zuckerberg said. There are plenty of products that show future potential, but the barrier to entry remains high in real-world use.

He cited OpenClaw as an example. Users have to install it locally on a computer, access a terminal and complete system settings themselves to use an AI agent. Zuckerberg said only a small number of users worldwide, in the millions, could finish that kind of setup. He said Meta is targeting the mass market rather than such a small group of users.

Zuckerberg said agents Meta is focusing on should be the kind that “just work.” He said making products that are easy enough to recommend to family members is more important than meeting a specific launch schedule.

He also laid out his view on developing coding agents. Zuckerberg said Meta is not necessarily a developer tools company. He said he is not opposed to making coding agents, but that it is not Meta’s top priority.

He also said people see coding and model self-improvement as too much of the same thing. Coding is only one element of model self-improvement, not the only one, he said.