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New video just dropped. Good Eggs and Clankers in Open Source. I built a trust scoring tool for open source contributors and then spent months discovering most of it was unnecessary. The whole story is in the video. youtu.be/LIDV7wmrHUw

Started with a complex graph model. PageRank over a bipartite contributor network, language multipliers, anti-gaming penalties. Scored famous contributors beautifully. Scored the people who actually need scoring terribly.

Tried to detect suspended accounts. Tested merge rate, network centrality, TF-IDF, LLM scoring across 31K Gemini calls. Best result: AUC 0.619. Nearly chance. If someone already passed human code review their profile looks like everyone else's.

Stripped the graph out. Accuracy went up. Account age added nothing. Every attempt to make the model smarter made it worse or flatlined. v3 is one line. merged / (merged + closed). Sometimes the simplest thing wins.

The video also covers xz Utils, the LiteLLM supply chain attack, the openclaw PR flood. But the punchline is optimistic. Projects are writing contribution guidelines that talk directly to agents and it's working. The clankers are steerable. The slop spike is self-correcting.

This is the first episode of a new series called Iterative Refinement from my company Burnin. Each episode is a complete deep dive into one thing we built. How it works, what failed, what we learned. Long form, minimal editing, just a camera and the work. www.youtube.com/channel/UC4D...

More coming on PEAK, Brill Agents, Thaw, and eventually our flagship. Good Egg is free and open source. Available as a Python lib, GitHub Action, MCP server, and more. github.com/2ndSetAI/goo...