https://nitter.space/LukeDashjr/status/1921234140717805769 
https://www.erisian.com.au/bitcoin-core-dev/log-2024-05-02.html#l-596
Discussion
Obviously he is making a play on words since knots is a fork of core, which would have the developer total on knots = core dev team + Luke
Tell me more of your 180iq takes please
The other developers work on the upstream project, Bitcoin Core. It is not clear to me why you think he's joking. Irrational takes like this are par of the course for him.
How much would you have to get paid to inspect knots code?
How much do you get paid to contribute to core?
I would like to see core make steps towards helping hashers become miners again, constructing their own templates and running their own nodes.
Core should have mining features ready to go with 1 click for the pool hashers to switch to decentralized mining.