Speakers
Andrei Ilie
Director of Engineering
Bolt
Dad of 2 daughters (1.5y, ~4y); Director of Engineering at Bolt; PhD in ML; formerly top of my Oxford bachelor and master's class in CS
Agenda
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04 June 2026 — 15:10 to 15:55 on AI Product Stage
Why AI Products Hit a Wall and What's Missing Underneath
Frontier models are already good enough. AI products plateau because of what surrounds the model - data, actions, evals, feedback loops, and human-in-the-loop boundaries. The companies that break through the plateau are the ones that build a platform, not a prompt.
By
Andrei Ilie
[Director of Engineering — Bolt]