What Kieran Kunhya has said about Open source maintainer burnout

1 quote · 1 episode · May 6, 2026

Kieran Kunhya, British codec engineer, longtime FFmpeg contributor, founder of Open Broadcast Systems and the person behind the FFmpeg account on X, has been quoted on Open source maintainer burnout once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on May 6, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Kunhya criticised the security industry for marking trivial issues as high severity, saying constant alarmism erodes credibility.
“at some point, the security industry needs to realize you can't keep crying wolf like this”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 1:18:31

Episodes

#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
Lex Fridman Podcast · May 6, 2026 · 4 h 24 min
Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya explain FFmpeg, VLC, video codecs, handwritten assembly, open-source maintainer burnout and the Google security drama with Lex Fridman.

Others on Open source maintainer burnout

Jean-Baptiste Kempf · 1 quote

Kieran Kunhya on other topics

FFmpeg · 2 quotes
Video codecs · 2 quotes
FFV1 and digital video archiving · 1 quote
x264 · 1 quote
Rust (programming language) · 1 quote
Assembly language and SIMD optimization · 1 quote