2am thoughts - will form them better later, but.... hear me out.

"Agents" are actually Web 3.0 (crypto tried to paint some stupid vision of web3 that is different from web1 and web2, but they were idiots. crypto wasn't web3, and has nothing to do with web3.0)

Web 2.0 was an evolution of Web 1.0

Web 3.0 is an evolution of Web 2.0

Web 1.0 were for initial "systems of knowledge" to publish information, one way, for end users of internet to read.

News sites, encyclopedias, or even weather websites.

Web 2.0 is when users got the ability to write back to the website. Thus starting an era of productivity and social software. The website does not exist only for users to read information about the website owner (like in Web1.0) but for users to store information, share it with each other and 'collaboratively' edit it. This enables JIRA and Twitter, and everything else. And the websites which hold this information becomes "systems of record" (note that web 3.0 doesn't wipe web 1.0 away, it just adds a new paradigm. web1.0 sites still continue to exist)

Web 3.0 is when users will use agents to interact with the internet. Their agents will talk to others agents, or with existing "systems of records". What people will "own" on the internet will not just be some data on a web2.0 site, but that they will own a living-breathing "box" which has both compute and storage, and can semi-autonmously interact with other people's agents, or read from systems of knowledge or write to systems of record. The LLM itself is hosted with Anthropic/OpenAI sure, but the agent is still where there is free-form storage for the context, for the 'cooking area' of the agent where it can download large amounts of temporary data to process it, and the agent is where there is 'compute' to perform these tool-call operations that it needs to do. The way people will interact with each other in web3.0, they cannot only get some rows in a database (like they do in JIRA or on Twitter), what they need is basically a VPS like box on the cloud. This is essentially a “system of action”

And in unix-nerd terminology

web1: r—

web2: rw-

web3: rwx