Jimmy Lai(@feedthejim):it wouldn't be far-fetched to say that for OSS js maintainers, a fully functional and cost-efficient slop fork of Typescript is the equivalent of Navier-Stokes being solved for mathematicians a year ago, this idea would have been laughed at where do we go from here?

Jimmy Lai

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codex/chatgpt web infra EM @openai previously: eng director @nextjs @vercel, also @reactnative @meta

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Jimmy Lai@feedthejim

2026.10.07 15:13

it wouldn't be far-fetched to say that for OSS js maintainers, a fully functional and cost-efficient slop fork of Typescript is the equivalent of Navier-Stokes being solved for mathematicians a year ago, this idea would have been laughed at where do we go from here?