I also found that line really strange. Not to take away from Alyssa's brilliant work, but the sentence made it sound like she's carrying the company/project on her back here.
It's Asahi Lina who really did the kernel driver (building on Alyssa's reverse engineering work).
Mostly based on her own reverse engineering work actually (which was all livestreamed). Alyssa's work was on the shader ISA and what goes into the various command queues to get the GPU to do useful things, Lina's work was on the lower level aspects of how the queues even work, interactions with the firmware, power management, etc.
They use all the same tools etc. But given Asahi Lina has chosen not to reveal their identity it's better to just assume it's a different person.
In the $current_year things are so hilariously sexist that I pass my work off as my wife's so I can make more money pretending to be her.
Makes me wonder how many great men of the past were actually their wives alter egos.
Interesting thought. I know JK Rowling is "JK" because her publisher wanted to obscure her gender. This sort of thing is probably common.