Max Howell

Yeah. We incentivize people to try and break T-Rank or Chai. And they found a way to do it by creating more than 200,000 packages on NPM. We're glad they found a way to break it because that meant we could fix it. And that's what the test set is for. But yeah, don't feel good about it. But when you're building new things, there's always unanticipated consequences to that.

Yeah. We incentivize people to try and break T-Rank or Chai. And they found a way to do it by creating more than 200,000 packages on NPM. We're glad they found a way to break it because that meant we could fix it. And that's what the test set is for. But yeah, don't feel good about it. But when you're building new things, there's always unanticipated consequences to that.

A lot of people think I should have seen this coming. I kind of agree with them. I should have seen it coming, but when you're building stuff, you only have so much time.

A lot of people think I should have seen this coming. I kind of agree with them. I should have seen it coming, but when you're building stuff, you only have so much time.

Yeah, and it won't happen again. We've closed the gap.

Yeah, and it won't happen again. We've closed the gap.

What exactly is T? Well, the main purpose of T, at least, you know, what I wanted to accomplish when I came up with the idea, was to use cryptocurrency to fix what we call the Nebraska problem after that famous XKCD comic. You know, the tower blocks representing all of... open source as they get stacked on top of each other.

What exactly is T? Well, the main purpose of T, at least, you know, what I wanted to accomplish when I came up with the idea, was to use cryptocurrency to fix what we call the Nebraska problem after that famous XKCD comic. You know, the tower blocks representing all of... open source as they get stacked on top of each other.

And those little projects near the bottom that are fragile because the people who maintain them don't have the time or the incentive to do so. And yet it's holding up so much critical infrastructure. So, yeah, it's a cryptocurrency project that uses a unique tokenomics model in order to give open source developers token rewards on a 24 hour basis.

And those little projects near the bottom that are fragile because the people who maintain them don't have the time or the incentive to do so. And yet it's holding up so much critical infrastructure. So, yeah, it's a cryptocurrency project that uses a unique tokenomics model in order to give open source developers token rewards on a 24 hour basis.

And a lot of the other pieces of it are designed to attract the interests of typical crypto investors or just like normal developers who want to show real support for their open source projects. A key differentiator between us and most ways of supporting open source is that there is no donations in our system. You can buy a token and then stake it against projects.

And a lot of the other pieces of it are designed to attract the interests of typical crypto investors or just like normal developers who want to show real support for their open source projects. A key differentiator between us and most ways of supporting open source is that there is no donations in our system. You can buy a token and then stake it against projects.

So both you and the project is gaining from this. There's no gift. It's more like an investment.

So both you and the project is gaining from this. There's no gift. It's more like an investment.

So nothing's different. Going into it, I knew that this wouldn't work if we changed anything about how open source already works. Right. You know, you can't charge for open source. You can't make it so you have to, you know, buy token and stake it, even if you can get that token back before you can use things. So it works based on calculating the impact of open source projects.

So nothing's different. Going into it, I knew that this wouldn't work if we changed anything about how open source already works. Right. You know, you can't charge for open source. You can't make it so you have to, you know, buy token and stake it, even if you can get that token back before you can use things. So it works based on calculating the impact of open source projects.

And then you are creating a yield on top of those projects that then goes to the project maintainers. They then distribute the token however they see fit. But yeah, as a user, nothing's different. And as a maintainer, Nothing's different. I didn't want to change the incentives in open source either. It's still incentivized in exactly the same way.

And then you are creating a yield on top of those projects that then goes to the project maintainers. They then distribute the token however they see fit. But yeah, as a user, nothing's different. And as a maintainer, Nothing's different. I didn't want to change the incentives in open source either. It's still incentivized in exactly the same way.

It's just now you're getting token for doing that rather than before where all you get is reputation or kudos, satisfaction perhaps.

It's just now you're getting token for doing that rather than before where all you get is reputation or kudos, satisfaction perhaps.