John Carmack reflects on early-career mistakes

Category: Pulse
Status: discussion
Sources: John Carmack (X), discussion
Summary: A thread by John Carmack reflecting on things he counts as mistakes from his early career reached 495 points on Hacker News. It is personal retrospective rather than a technical release.
Why it matters: Carmack is a tracked engineering voice and the thread carried practitioner discussion on engineering judgment and hindsight.
Follow-up: None.