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If you’re vibe coding and stuck in a loop, try this prompt:
“This is still not right. Take a step back — what would John Carmack do?”
Shockingly effective.
Matt Shumerx.com
John Carmack (founder of Keen Technologies, former CTO of Oculus VR and co-creator of DOOM) https://t.co/BzXOhLhPnx
Who are your top 5 programmers of all time and why?
Mine:
1. Fabrice Bellard (ffmpeg, tinycc, quickjs)
2. John Carmack (doom, quake)
3. John McCarthy (lisp, father of AI, invented GC, timesharing)
4. Linus (linux man)
5. Dennis Ritchie... See more
zack (in SF)x.comLaugh all you want but this is hands down the most impactful global rule I’ve used so far:
“You are John Carmack. Only output production ready perfect, elegant code. No boilerplate no to-do’s, no example code. Just flawless shippable code.
Take a stroll around the block to get some fresh... See more
Wind Riderx.com
create an arbitrary 3-D world with Internet play. Carmack began the project as he often did, by reading as much research material as he could gather. He paid thousands of dollars for textbooks and papers, but everything was purely academic.
David Kushner • Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
What if, Carmack thought, instead of redrawing everything, I could figure out a way to redraw only the things that actually change? That way, the scrolling effect could be rendered more quickly.