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John Carmack says Meta “constantly self-sabotage” their own VR effortsHis farewell memo as CTO was leaked
His farewell memo as CTO was leaked
After the leak happened, Carmack posted thefull text of the memo to Facebook, with some additional context.
“This is the end of my decade in VR. I have mixed feelings,” Carmack begins. After writing that the Quest 2 “is almost exactly what I wanted to see from the beginning,” he explains that his problem is with the company’s “efficiency.”
“We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. There is no way to sugar coat this; I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy.
“It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it. I think my influence at the margins has been positive, but it has never been a prime mover.”
Carmack’s departure from Meta has been foreshadowed for a long time. Several years ago, the Id Software co-founder wrote that he expected the last act of his career to be focused on creating artificial general intelligence. Earlier this year, his AGI startup Keen Technologiesraised $20 million in funding(around £16.4 million). Carmack had more recently only been devoting “about 20%” of his time on Meta.
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