The Tea app is or at least was on fire, rapidly gaining lots of users. This opens up two discussions, one on the game theory and dynamics of Tea, one on its abysmal security.

It's a little too on the nose that a hot new app that purports to exist so that women can anonymously seek out and spill the tea on men, which then puts user information into an unprotected dropbox thus spilling the tea on the identities of many of its users.

In the circles I follow this predictably led to discussions about how badly the app was coded and incorrect speculation that this was linked to vibe coding, whereas the dumb mistakes involved were in this case fully human.

There was also some discussion of the game theory of Tea, which I found considerably more interesting and fun, and which will take up [...]

---

Outline:

(00:54) Pouring Some Tea

(03:12) Zero Tolerance Policy

(04:26) Solve For The Equilibrium

(06:15) A Fun Tale

(07:05) Is That Bad?

(15:57) Levels of Friction

(16:48) Can Hack It

(21:19) Should You Spill The Tea?

---

First published:

Source:

---

Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

---

Images from the article:

Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.