Worth bearing in mind while he’d probably like to think it was all down to him because he’s the genius behind the curtain, he was also totally outmanoeuvred by Carrie Johnson and achieved next to fuck-all while in post other than providing material for a Specsavers advert.
The only time Cummings has achieved anything is by cheating, and then the system doing disappointingly nothing to address this. In that respect he and Musk really are alike - people convinced of their own ability when their success is largely based on the feeble performance of others.