Top 100 AI · United States
John Carmack
Keen Tech 
- Score
- 8,7760 today
- Rank
- 12/198 ↓7
- over 90 days
- −122−1.3%
John Carmack is a prominent technologist and entrepreneur known for his contributions to the gaming and virtual reality industries. He currently serves as AGI at Keen Technologies and was formerly the CTO of Oculus VR. Carmack is also the founder of Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace.
Data as of Oct 25, 2026.
The raw numbers · last 90 days
- Median views
- 157.8K
- per post
- Median engagements
- 1.3K
- per post
- Posts
- 28
- over 90 days
- Followers
- 4.2M
- all scored platforms
What drives the score
Percentiles 0–100 against all tracked creators.
- Reach · 30%95
Average views per post over 90 days
- Engagement · 30%84
Average reactions per post
- Audience · 30%99
Total followers, relative to population
- Consistency · 10%100
Posting frequency (25 posts / 90 days = 100)
Platforms
4.2M total followers
| Platform | Followers | Score |
|---|---|---|
| X@id_aa_carmack | 4.2M | 9,749t1 |
| 31K | not scored |
Last 30 days
Carmack's top posts
- X · 11 days ago#1
That demo involved a non trivial chance of embarrassing failure! 🫡 I’m only going for the baseline model. At this point in my life, rocket bunny hops are out of my comfort zone.
JCJohn Carmack980.7K views17.5K engagements
- X · 11 days ago#2
I had a similar reaction. Everyone should applaud performance improvements, but gauge against the “speed of light”, not just a sloppy competitor. If you are measuring in seconds, you may have already anchored yourself…
JCJohn Carmack232.4K views4.3K engagements
- X · 3 days ago#3
I always thought it was a shame that modest default stack setups made alloca() a generally-frowned-upon technique in C/C++. With 64 bit architectures, give every stack a virtual address space equal to the physical mem…
JCJohn Carmack199.4K views2.6K engagements
- X · 4 days ago#4
It is unfortunate that so much of the robotics world uses 50 hz joint targets, while the video data collection is at 60 hz. That skew isn't in the top ten problems for most robotics efforts today, but eventually it sh…
JCJohn Carmack153.2K views2.2K engagements
X · 20 days ago#5JCJohn CarmackWhenever I see a decorative mirror ball, I think about the old-school OpenGL GL_SPHERE_MAP texgen option, and light probes for realistic lighting of synthetic renderings for merging with photos. Long before cube maps …
89.4K views1.5K engagements
X · 17 days ago#6JCJohn CarmackWaymo and Zoox first impressions I use self driving on my Tesla all the time, but I finally got around to trying the commercial autonomous ride hailing services this week in Las Vegas. The biggest issue by far is the …
194.4K views1.4K engagements
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