No, of course not. He is a programming powerhouse. His projects are monumental. It's astonishing what this one person can get done.
At a former employer, I was part of a team of a couple dozen engineers and digital designers who were working on an LTE remote radiohead and base station product. Around the time we were releasing this product, Fabrice released this [0].
Fabrice is a tremendous talent, in our world he would be analogous to a Kobe Bryant or a Wayne Gretzky, so I find it flatly obnoxious that this is the bar that's being raised in this thread.
It doesn't matter how hard I eschew the bullshit in my life and everything else "standing in my way" to try to build a legacy. I am not like Fabrice. It's unlikely anyone in this comment thread is like Fabrice. There are so very few people who are on his level, you could probably count them all on 2 hands. It's absurd to think that this is what everyone eeds to strive for in life.
Probably his most influential projects have been ffmpeg and QEMU. Lots of people use software incorporating or derived from those, often without even realising. I think most developers would be proud of a legacy containing starting just one project like either of those. He's also got a great body of interesting other projects and hacks, including a linux capable VM running in the browser, a digital tv broadcaster using a single pin of vga, a popular embeddable javascript engine, a C compiler that could compile and boot the linux kernel in less than 15 seconds - allowing effectively 'boot from source', an award winning neural network based text compressor and many more - to say nothing of temporarily holding the record for most digits of PI calculated (using a formula he invented, and on a home PC).
