As social creatures, we are eager to show people we care so that we can benefit in times of need when we need them to care for us. E.g.: When someone is sick, we are more likely to cook something for them even if we could have just bought it from a store and given it to them.
As with other social networks that grow, Instagram broadened its formats early on to head off several format-based asymptotes. Non-square photos and videos with gradually lengthening time limits have broadened the use cases and, more importantly, removed some level of production friction.
It’s very exciting to see all the progress with agents. But we shouldn’t get swept away by the hype just yet. In most cases there will be a human in the loop for a while. Compounding errors are real and agents continue to need human guidance. Also inference costs are still high.
We all think we make these choices ourselves. But it turns out that our choices are more constrained than we think. The unseen hand in them all is the networks that surround us & the powerful math they exert on us.
I own cdixon.org, and I own it because I host it at Netlify. If Netlify becomes evil, I will just switch it over to another place because I control the DNS record. An NFT is architecturally very different from other things on the internet.