i wonder if we'll ever see good user owned and operated personal "ai agents" or if the technology will just skip the cottage-hipster phase and jump straight to enshitification.
By the time user owned ai agents are able to run on the kind of devices most people have they'll all be banned on the app stores just like any other non-pre-approved application that hasn't been paid for on the app stores will be. For "security reasons". Maybe there will be user owned/controlled ai agents for people with desktop computers and open source operating systems though.
I think the computing requirements to run a local agent are high enough that it'll always be more niche than browsers and certainly unlikely on phones, which already means you're probably running it on the cloud or something.
