The author is using a Mythical Man-Month idea about how fast people can solve problems and applying it to computer programs and algorithms. Sorry, but that doesn't wash. You can't automatically analyze the basic blocks and dataflow of a human researcher's brain, but compilers can do this to programs.

What's been missing is a high-level approach to parallelism. This is exactly where Apple has a core competency: software tools. I think they stand a good chance of producing something useful. It won't be universally applicable, but it doesn't need to be. If it will be useful in making parallelism easier, then this will be a meaningful success.