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 ↓