🗞️ Not So Merry Meta-mas
The head of VR hardware development at Meta, John Carmack (co-creator of DOOM), is leaving. But he made sure to leave a flaming pile of poop on Zuck’s front porch on his way out.
In an internal memo (that leaked, naturally), he said things like:
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.
He also said (more or less) that his ideas are mostly ignored and openly complained about things during a recent Meta event keynote.
A year ago he was saying:
we should be wary of "architecture astronauts" who do a lot of high-level hand-waving instead of building viable products that customers find useful.
Hell of a way to end the year for Zuck’s dream-turned-nightmare.