Is that giving them too little credit? I mean, it's only been six months, and they have a quarter of a million dollars. Not quitting, in those circumstances,

Is that giving them too little credit? I mean, it's only been six months, and they have a quarter of a million dollars. Not quitting, in those circumstances, is not exactly heroic. The hype isn't what makes them less capable as a team, their code does. That's the thing about people's response to the code, it was symbolic of their capabilities, and as such, people are rightly critical of whether they'll be the ones to pull this off, especially when others have been working on this problem for years now. Let's also remember that at this point, they're not a startup, they're an open source project, and we should judge them as such. And with open source, the only thing that matters is code.