The truth is more simple: he's a good engineer and leader, people recognised that and offered him sponsorships, and the project took off by itself.
You get to good at schmoozing the compiler you start to create actual logical bugs faster.
IIRC he used to work on the Safari browser engine at Apple.
Wary of what?
Long read on the topic (quite funny, covers Cluely): https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai...
This doesn't mean that being agentic cannot be cultivated by regular people.
In 2026, yes, agency matters more than skill/wisdom/intelligence to get VC funds. But what's the point of agency alone if you are leading such a life?
What gives me hope is that in 2026, skillful people can delegate a lot of their work to LLMs, which gives them time to learn the "agentic" part which is basically marketing and talking with people.
(just thinking out loud)
We’re at the point where a solid test suite and a high-quality agent can achieve impressive results in the hands of a competent coder. Yes, it will still screw up, needs careful human review and steering, etc, but there is a tangible productivity improvement. I don’t think it makes sense putting numbers on it, but for many tasks, it looks like there’s a tangible benefit.
LLM and rust rewrite together. And it does work so hopefully they get more attention and build it so I have an alternative browser to use