I think this comparison is a bit unfair. The guy who made Winamp had significant experience in creating audio related programs. Winamp had a lot of audio twea

I think this comparison is a bit unfair. The guy who made Winamp had significant experience in creating audio related programs. Winamp had a lot of audio tweaking/editing-like features also. By taking his investment of knowledge about audio programming, he saved a significant amount of time in recreating something similar with his pro tools v0.0.1. I wouldn't be surprised if he copied a good chunk of code from winamp too. Also he was starting from square one. It might take me a few weeks to make enhancements to some add on website I'm unfamiliar with using clunky web tech fighting with a badly architectured framework, while it would take me a day to make the same thing with a concise and elegant API starting from scratch. Later on I might become faster in changing the website. It's like a phd physicist talking about how that math phd clobbered him in an analytics course, when really he just had more invested. Or as the article says: "“Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before."