The whole quote makes your clip sound different: Some of the most advanced programming, as Clive Thompson notes in his 2019 book Coders, was pushed forward by long-haired weirdos who hung around university labs after hours, hackers who considered themselves as much artisans as logicians.
Oh is this is the new measure of success? I better get one then.
Used to be we just pointed to the successful products and companies we created, but I guess we are measuring folks now on mostly pointless pet projects that no one is using?
And it was not said in relation to agile.