Counterpoint: Carmack worked at Meta on the Oculus, he had as much visibility as it’s possible to have on the problems, their fixes, and whether the fixes would

Counterpoint: Carmack worked at Meta on the Oculus, he had as much visibility as it’s possible to have on the problems, their fixes, and whether the fixes would break things. He doesn’t spell it out in the tweet but the kinds of issues he talks about the satellite image having sound like the kind of issues you might see in VR hardware and software too, and the fact that he immediately noticed and correctly guessed what was going wrong in the satellite images suggests he had tackled the exact same problem while working on the Oculus. In fact, I’m pretty sure that’s why he made this tweet: he saw a problem he’d seen before, he suggested the same solution he’d suggested before, and he saw the solution implemented in days instead of months.