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I remember John Carmack talking about this last year. Seems like it's still pretty good advice more than a year later: "From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this." x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/163708721959…
Some of that isn't the text editors fault. With the C64 the keystroke may be on the screen before it out of the USB stack on a modern computer. That is even before you start to consider the latency in the video stack. As John Carmack once noted: "I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?" -- twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480…
FFmpeg is a part of Chromium and Chrome. That's it for "company of any significance would ever use it" statement. chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/thir…... Also: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/125853…
> MS didn't manage to sabotage WebGL To be fair I don't' think they really wanted to sabatoge WebGL out of spite, they had some very valid reasons for not implementing it right away. Here on hacker news some of our best minds sided with MSFT on this. twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/817321… news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2677899
For all the people who are doubting that applications are slow and that it must just be me - here [0] is a debugger that someone has built from the ground up that compiles, launches, attaches a debugger and hits a breakpoint in the same length of time that visual studio displays the splash screen for. [0] x.com/ryanjfleury/status/17477562194047…
hunt and peck is probably an exaggeration but typing speed is not the bottleneck for programming twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/130265…
Here's what they built, x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/192524353954… Quite exciting. Without diminishing the amazing value of LLMs, I don't think that path goes all the way to AGI. No idea if Carmack has the answer, but some good things will come out of that small research group, for sure.
You're not the only one who thinks this way: twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/121099…
Same here, I never understood Java interfaces, abstract classes, and a ton of other "features" but picking up Clojure was a breeze. I don't understand why complicating thing that supposed to be simple helps you by any mean. On the top of that, I have seen several cases when Java programmers tipped over in their own code because of the complexity that they thought they understand, except there was a particular case when it was doing something else then expected. Reasoning about Clojure (LISP) code is always easy because if you follow best practices you have small functions with very little context to understand. On the top of these, I see the ratio of LOC 50:1 (worst case even higher) for Java : Clojure code that does the same thing. Usually people get triggered and say why does it matter, but in reality less code is better for everybody. Easier to understand, less chance of errors, etc. Correctness was long time lost for majority of Java developers, just put out a survey and you can see it for yourself. It is also pretty common practice not to handle exceptions well and just let a DNS not found error explode as an IOexception and good luck tracking down what caused it (literary happened to me). I understand that the average Java dev does not see any value in LISP (Clojure) but it silly to expect that the average of any group is going to lead the scientific advancement of any field including computer science. One tendency that you can see if you are walking around with open eyes that the people who spent significant time in developing procedural code in an imperative language understand the importance of functional language features and the power of LISP. One can pretend it does not matter see you in 5-10 years and see how much this changes. twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/577877… youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g youtube.com/watch?v=P76Vbsk_3J0
Superhuman coding has not happened. I work with Codex and Claude daily. They're fantastic for script coding, config issues, and simple projects. They lose the plot on bigger things to this day. Just last night, Astra decided to cheat to present the illusion of progress until I called its BS. And I was so looking forward to finally working with the AGI. Humans remain the muse, the common sense, and the manager of making these things productive. And as much as I agree with Carmack's suggestion to not become the out of touch Kung Fu Master: x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/209844326221… working with them on projects daily gives me a pretty tactical read on what they can and cannot do IMO. That's how I reconcile it. But let's say it had. That's just 1 of 20 events that have to happen in sequence to hit the jackpot here.
John Carmack, who did some small amount of work on the code, had a short rebuttal of the "Lockdown Skeptics" attack on the Imperial College code that probably mirrors the feelings of some of us here: mobile.twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status…...
Yeah, although it is weird that it doesn’t insert white people into results like this by accident? x.com/imao_/status/1760159905682509927… I’ve also seen numerous examples where it outright refuses to draw white people but will draw black people: x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/17603509035… That doesn’t explainable by system prompt
This kind of nuanced discussion of latency is something I only see among really serious gamers. If you look at things like the Steam hardware survey, it becomes quickly apparent that the hardcore gamer (e.g. someone who has a high refresh rate display or similar and cares about this) appears likely a very small part of the overall gaming landscape, which is a very broad church now. I think game streaming will ultimately win out hugely - “ordinary” (for lack of better term) gamers simply don’t care about the technical disadvantages. Huge numbers of console gamers already often add 100ms or more lag via their TV’s slow image processing and don’t even notice or care. I don’t think the average gamer is as latency sensitive as many readers here might be. Most people are going to see that they can have a high end console/PC-like experience for a fraction of the cost of owning a high end console/PC, for the vast majority that is surely an appealing prospect. Finally, John Carmack himself believes the latency issue can be mitigated well enough for most things - that’s good enough for me ;) > twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/110814…... My only real concern in all this is the future of video game mods. This is a pretty big thing now and hard to imagine this surviving well in a streaming based future. This would be a loss, creatively and functionally, for some people.
How big of a Carmack fan are you really, if you don't know one of his most well known takes on programming? (And you definitely don't need to be a fan.) Carmack has been heavily in favor of leveraging power tools since way back. Direct quote from the man himself: > I will engage with what I think your gripe is — AI tooling trivializing the skillsets of programmers, artists, and designers. > My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper characters into hex digits. Software progress has made that work as irrelevant as chariot wheel maintenance. > Building power tools is central to all the progress in computers. > Game engines have radically expanded the range of people involved in game dev, even as they deemphasized the importance of much of my beloved system engineering. > AI tools will allow the best to reach even greater heights, while enabling smaller teams to accomplish more, and bring in some completely new creator demographics. > Yes, we will get to a world where you can get an interactive game (or novel, or movie) out of a prompt, but there will be far better exemplars of the medium still created by dedicated teams of passionate developers. > The world will be vastly wealthier in terms of the content available at any given cost. x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/190931117484…
x.com/Rahll/status/2032473978179039260 Is a better comment.
A Twitter reply that really resonated with me: "Marketing is a zero sum game. You only compete against the marketing of your competition. If no one would market, the result would be pretty much the same. You kind of need it, but it doesn't realy CREATE value." (twitter.com/ViconDev/status/15516836784…) Marketing creates "value" for the people doing the marketing. It doesn't create value for the intended consumers. At best they buy something they hadn't heard of and hadn't realized they wanted/needed. At worst, you're manipulating people into giving you cash in exchange for something they wouldn't have otherwise bought. A lot of the takes I see here are from the perspective of the company, and I absolutely agree that if you run a company, you need marketing if you're going to compete. It's just a shame it has to be that way. If marketing (and especially advertising) didn't exist, we'd have the same situation we have now, except that people wouldn't pointlessly stretch their finances to buy things they don't need.