John Carmack
American computer programmer and video game developerWikipedia
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Sep 25, 2026
QuinnHOST
Or it's going to change 99.99%.
QuinnHOST
Making slides, documents, a human emailing another human.
QuinnHOST
Most of the reasons why a human emails another human, everything about how a company works will change.
ThorstenHOST
Welcome to Raising an Agent, episode five, season two.
ThorstenHOST
And we're here because we feel it in our bones that we have to record this episode because it's Hot Take Thursday.
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QuinnHOST
And you know, it's clearly it, it, It's a farce.
QuinnHOST
It's just slowing you down from actually benefiting from the velocity improvements.
QuinnHOST
And if you are, you know, let's stipulate to you do take on some more risk relative to the perfect ideal code review process where the smartest human John Carmack is reviewing it a thousand times over for a thousand years.
MayleeHOST
the day? I did not.
PaulHOST
sort of uh post-quake 2 taking off a little bit of like the interactivity of like duke 3d uh the you and you were like a big muscly hero man but you had a nerdy sidekick called jc who just looked exactly like john carmack oh
MayleeHOST
i was thinking jesus christ
PaulHOST
yes well the same thing really in terms um i don't don't know if jesus christ was as autistic as john carmack is
MayleeHOST
um could be you don't know that he wasn't
PaulHOST
There is no doubt that someone has done a psychological analysis on those sort of terms.
MayleeHOST
the day? I did not.
PaulHOST
sort of uh post-quake 2 taking off a little bit of like the interactivity of like duke 3d uh the you and you were like a big muscly hero man but you had a nerdy sidekick called jc who just looked exactly like john carmack oh
MayleeHOST
i was thinking jesus christ
PaulHOST
yes well the same thing really in terms um i don't don't know if jesus christ was as autistic as john carmack is
MayleeHOST
um could be you don't know that he wasn't
PaulHOST
There is no doubt that someone has done a psychological analysis on those sort of terms.
John CooganHOST
It's 100 grams, which is the, the weight of a pack of deck of cards.
John CooganHOST
Uh, if you go back, John Carmack was the C- CTO of Oculus, uh, working with Palmer Luckey.
John CooganHOST
He came into Meta through the acquisition.
John CooganHOST
He's the creator of Doom, legendary computer scientist, now running Keen, working on AI.
John CooganHOST
It's 100 grams, which is the, the weight of a pack of deck of cards.
John CooganHOST
Um, and, uh, if you go back, John Carmack was the C- CTO of Oculus, uh, working with Palmer Luckey.
John CooganHOST
He came into Meta through the acquisition.
John CooganHOST
He's the creator of Doom, legendary computer scientist now running Keen, working on AI.
Nick HarePANELIST
It's dreadful.
Nick HarePANELIST
Uh, so John Carmack, who was, who was a, a, uh, guy who worked at Oculus before Facebook acquired it, he said, "We've got a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort.
Nick HarePANELIST
There's no way to sugarcoat it.
Nick HarePANELIST
I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy.
Madison McIlwainHOST
[laughs]
Russ d'SaGUEST
Um, it was a documentary, um, about John Carmack and John Romero.
Madison McIlwainHOST
Nice.
Russ d'SaGUEST
And so John Carmack, um, I think more famously now for Keen Technologies, which is a, the AI company, and then Oculus-
Madison McIlwainHOST
Mm-hmm
Russ d'SaGUEST
... where he was the CTO.
Richard CobbettGUEST
I mean, that's, th- there's barely any story in Quake.
Richard CobbettGUEST
Um, and, and famously the, John Carmack said-
Frederik OlsenHOST
It was Shub-Niggurath all along.
Richard CobbettGUEST
Dun, dun-dun-dun, dun, dun.
Mike VernalGUEST
So like maybe the transition from like a level three to a level four or level four to level five is just becoming a more competent engineer.
Mike VernalGUEST
But at some point pretty quickly, unless you are John Carmack or Ilya Sutskever, you are like not going to be able to continue to double your impact all the way through eight, nine or ten.
Mike VernalGUEST
And so at that point, the way you have to think about doubling your impact is basically how do you make the people around you more effective? And there are a few ways of doing that.
Mike VernalGUEST
One is actually like building tools that the rest of the engineering team can use for each of them to become more effective.
DeucyHOST
is safe like what were what were some of the ones that came out recently that critical acclaim sold tons of copies and then you still hear about the labs
DonnieHOST
here's the one that really really irritated the hell out of me was they gutted id id software the most iconic legendary developer and i'd say They're up there with the Nintendos and some of the other developers we could probably make examples of, but they did so much for gaming when they started in the early 90s with John Carmack and John Romero and the whole team they did there, right? So they apparently gutted more than half the team there.
DonnieHOST
Their team now is apparently smaller than what they started Doom 2016 with.
DonnieHOST
And all three Doom games critically acclaimed, sold pretty well.
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