[AndrewKemendo]

In my experience what I see happen is that executives look at comments like this as proof that grinding people into the ground actually work

They don’t care about whether or not a company lasts for 30 years or whatever they care that stuff gets shipped and point to this as:

“the best programmer in the world was only successful because he pushed his people super hard”

So I wouldn’t be hopeful that this is an effective warning

[somecontext]

In the linked thread that John Carmack is responding to, Sandy Petersen agrees:

> So if my theorem is correct, and Quake gutted id Software, was it worth it? Well I'd say yes absolutely.

https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2069592330152362034