I don't think you understand if we were to just give people money then how are these platforms gonna take a cut of the action?

sounds like you do not support other people that have nothing to do with the code that you like

Tokens are better than money. They let you train your skills to get top 1% on LeetPrompt so you have an entry in the lottery to interview for your next temp position.

While I definitely like the Patreon for Software Builders idea, that's got some moving pieces which take additional legal work. My hope is that could come in time as it would be really cool.

Regarding rewarding maintainer effort, I'm shooting for the value prop of "free AI", this only works if reconciliation is per-phase and liquidity is accessible across as many repos as possible. So if I had each reconcile drain the pool, there would be a lot of stalled work and human intervention required.

That said, there are probably some maintainers that don't want "free AI" and that's okay.

"We can pay you in exposure... And b̶e̶e̶r̶s̶ tokens!"