I get what the author is saying, but his examples like "a ripgrep fork that ... is faster for my codex ripgrep workloads" don't strike me as particularly ambitious.
Perhaps we should be more ambitious in the types of problems we try to solve, and the types of value we try to provide with the software we build.
Perhaps we should be more ambitious in the types of problems we try to solve, and the types of value we try to provide with the software we build.