Arweave took 5 years to get right. AO compressed that timeline into 18 months.
Our launch rating? An honest 4-6/10.
@samecwilliams on building a prototype meant to be thrown away, the hard choice to rebuild it properly.
→ Scaling a "raggedy ass prototype" to 12,500 CPUs
→ 4,000 devs tried it the first week (@ArweaveEco took years)
→ Refusing to cut corners when everyone wanted faster
→ Why that choice saved 5 years of hard forks
"There's no incentive to build machines with high integrity. Other than the one that comes from yourself."
These are our lessons from the AO Launch ↓
