Tea is from the same person who was using AI generated descriptions in their package manager the other day. Probably best to put your old grift to bed before starting your new one?
Ironically it’s also the same guy who did Homebrew!
pkgx looks great on paper (did not try), but why oh why does Max want to put crypto and AI everywhere?
How much money did he make from Homebrew relative to its value to companies around the world? My impression of this was that he was tired of other people making money off of his work and that probably lead to some wishful thinking that things would be different this time around. The cryptocurrency space has relied heavily on FOMO as a way to get people to think it might not be a scam this time, or at least one which will last long enough for them to cash out. I’m very sympathetic to the plight of unfunded open source developers but this is a mirage.
Some of the supposed selling points on the pkgx the website are that they "build new releases almost immediately" and "add everything that people want without qualms", which seems to imply pretty lax quality control. Given that they apparently consider AI-generated garbage appropriate in package descriptions and issue comments, I would be even more wary. Is anyone checking that packages don't include malware?
AI is a fun toy. Of course people want to play with it. It's like the <blink> era of html. It's not an appropriate use of the technology, it doesn't add value... but... it's fun.