GM - Won't relitigate past EF decisions. These are not mine to callout. Forward-looking part is. One nit: less than 10% of argot's 2025 budget went to fe (~$200k for H2). It's public info. The real problem isn't misallocation of fe vs vyper or why Fe sits under Argot while Vyper is working on generating revenue (shoutout to @nachortti for helping Vyper here), despite its adoption. The real problem is across the entire compiler stack. Fe with Sonatina, Vyper with Venom, Plank with its new IR, solx with LLVM, even Solidity is rewriting (core-sol with SAIL). They are all rebuilding the entire compiler. So many overlapping efforts inside one ecosystem, many trying to do the same thing. Yul has tech debt, sure but the answer cannot be N teams forking N IRs in isolation, all N looking for funding, taking years to be safe while the production compiler securing 500B+ across 20+ EVM chains passes the hat. Two asides: 1. genuinely glad I'm not on the solc team. Any minor change there touches that entire 500B $ surface. Huge shoutout to @solidity_lang engs. Legends. 2. shoutout to @real_philogy for collaborating with fe and core-sol toward a shared IR. Building a language is hard enough but share what is possible, especially if things take years to be safe. Anyway, what I'm doing about it: - call with argot - learning about Fe's past. - double down with @nachortti on Odin - ideally all language, compiler teams should have a sustainable path for revenue. - from my seat at the EF, working on devex. A short-term fix for stack-too-deep is in sight, while solar, solx and the solidity team work on the real long-term solution - funding languages going forward with a strategy that links the ecosystem instead of fragmenting it further 8 years in and developer pain points haven't moved enough. Time to solve them!

Could not have said this better. Solidity and Vyper need to be funded properly, as the production tools they are, instead of having their potential funding wasted on infinite efforts to build toy langs.

(language aside) this ranking is a good example of why QF/retro funding rounds are hard to see as structural solutions to looming, fundamental funding gaps. a few points on their drawbacks: ⭐️ key infra with a diffuse userbase/public/beneficiary set (eg. the cryptoeconomic security of the network) will never be able to rally votes in the same way a project with a mailing list of active users. this is a parallel dynamic we see with "charismatic megafauna" in environmental advocacy: it's a lot easier to solicit donations for lions and bears than watershed improvement. to illustrate the point, and not my bias: human(dot)tech (which appears) has 1700 donors maxing out their matching, protocol guild (which funds 200 eth core devs who provide the foundation for network security) has only managed to convince 112 people ⭐️ rounds are easier to curate poorly, and this in turn has downstream effects on the quality of allocation. some of the projects are only barely related to the theme, but once "inside the gate" can reap longtail, disproportionate benefits which draw from deserving projects ⭐️ "parts out" dynamic: SEAL is broken into many separate projects to maximize matching. no shade, this is the game theoretic optimal strategy. should protocol guild do this with all of its core client team members, researchers, etc to saturate the zone? i've written about this dynamic here in OP RPGF: i hope this feedback is taken constructively. 🫡 i estimate the level of available funding is 2 orders of magnitude below where it needs to be. lots of work to do, looking forward

takopi users: in retaliation to bunny unsubscribing, anthropic is rugging `claude -p` via subscription. it would have separate billing starting 2026-06-15. codex still works via subscription. in takopi it uses `codex exec`

This is literally insane guy had 5 BTC locked in a wallet for 9 years dumped his old college computer into Claude as a hail mary Claude found the wallet file, debugged btcrecover's password logic, decrypted the keys, converted to WIF, recovered the funds We are so unbelievably early

the most infuriating part of my entire ethereum experience has been watching Vyper get repeatedly neglected by anyone with power the most inspiring part has been watching the hard work of people like @big_tech_sux @pcaversaccio @fubuloubu and others to keep it alive

asked codex to try something or abandon it if it can't find a reasonable solution, and it created a goal with a token budget. so that's a feature. i don't think it's exposed in the ui yet, but you can say like "create this and that goal with a 50m token budget".