John Carmack

On this episode of Coder Caffeine, Maker Mantras Edition, we are guided by a powerful quote from John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and legendary programmer behind Doom and Quake , and practice a powerful mantra that reminds us that breakthroughs aren’t born from speed — they’re carved step by step through unwavering focus. Creds Community! Remember to let focus sharpen your effort, pursue your goal until it's your destiny - and always keep coding!

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (00:22) - Do the simplest thing that could possibly work (01:34) - Grok Code Fast 1 (02:51) - John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta (04:04) - The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch (05:21) - Flunking my Anthropic interview again (06:36) - Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition (07:39) - Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs (09:00) - Wikipedia as a Graph (09:58) - How do I get into the game industry (11:06) - Outro Do the simplest thing that could possibly work https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068091 Grok Code Fast 1 https://x.ai/news/grok-code-fast-1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063559 John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395 The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch https://positiveblue.substack.com/p/the-web-does-not-need-gatekeepers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066258 Flunking my Anthropic interview again https://taylor.town/flunking-anthropic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064284 Essential Coding Theory [pdf] https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065705 Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037419 Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064329 Wikipedia as a Graph https://wikigrapher.com/paths https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066060 How do I get into the game industry https://garry.net/posts/how-do-i-get-into-the-game-industry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036052

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Philip Su grew to Distinguished Engineer (IC9) at Meta and OpenAI. He has a bunch of interesting stories about working with people like Zuck and John Carmack as well as a ton of advice for software engineers. I was really looking forward to chatting with him and enjoyed this conversation a lot. I hope you find it helpful! In this conversation, we discussed: • What Distinguished Eng (IC9) expectations look like • How he got promoted to IC9 • Working with impressive engineers like John Carmack • What made Zuck and Boz special as coworkers • Learnings from switching between IC and EM 6x • Why he joined OpenAI • Advice for his younger self Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:02) Growing to Senior Staff (IC7) at Microsoft (06:38) Management vs IC transitions (17:32) Demotion from IC9 to IC7 at Meta (20:28) IC7, IC8, and IC9 expectations (28:58) IC9 promo story (31:30) Building a strong eng team culture (36:16) Working with Zuck + Meta CTO (38:57) Working with John Carmack and other impressive ICs (41:44) Buying $23000 of coffee in a day (45:35) Why leave Facebook (49:25) Joining OpenAI (55:38) Writing well as a software engineer (1:03:00) Does software eng performance decline as you age? (1:07:00) Building credibility as a young manager (1:10:25) Should you be a generalist or a specialist? (1:12:43) Advice for his younger self Where to find Philip: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suphilip/ • Peak Salvation podcast he referenced: https://peaksalvation.com/ Where to find Ryan: • Newsletter: https://www.developing.dev/ • X: https://x.com/ryanlpeterman • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/ • Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ryanlpeterman • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanlp eterman To hear more, visit www.developing.dev

Original text by Jim Black . Previous John Carmack episode: The Steve Jobs Rollercoaster . Peter Graffagnino’s appearance at NeXTEVNT 2015 . Peter is interviewed by fellow Pixar veteran Michael Johnson. Some of the original Mac team demonstrating Steve Jobs’ favourite hand gesture (scroll down). John Carmack’s appearance at Macworld San Francisco 1999 . “The only thing you want to do with the Mac as a serious gamer is you wanna pull out the silly one button mouse and plug in a three button mouse pretty quick.” Steve Jobs Deer Hunter quote from Macworld New York 1998 .

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What if you could browse the web… from Mars? 🌌 In a cosmic catnip moment, John Carmack shares purr-spectives on solving the "Mars-ternet" problem—where every whisker-twitch of communication with Earth faces minutes of latency! 🐱 In his response to Elon Musk, Carmack proposes a clever blend of tech tricks: Starship data caches, AI-driven replies for those looooong waits, and neural networks simulating answers mid-delay. His solutions are sci-fi worthy but paws-itively practical. If we’re serious about setting up Martian colonies, solving this latency is the fur-st step! 🚀 Related Tweets: Elon Musk’s Tweet John Carmack’s Response In this episode: Carmack’s approach to Mars internet latency Creative solutions like Starship caching and AI batching Neural networks filling in the lag with smart replies How Starships might act as repeaters for smooth Mars-Earth comms #MarsNet #SpaceTech #JohnCarmack #AI #Latency