Epic’s new games launcher is ‘vibe coded’

Epic Games is announcing a large refresh of its PC games launcher contiguous successful preview, saying that the caller mentation is "way faster" and present supports Linux. But the company, which has been publically making a large propulsion into AI-assisted development, besides notes that the refresh was "vibe coded."

"Programming is hard," Epic says successful a blog post. "So, alternatively of doing that, we vibe coded a caller Epic Games Launcher that's mode faster and much responsive than the existent one, and has a caller look."

On Monday, CEO Tim Sweeney announced that the institution has a "huge pivot underway," wherever it volition beryllium "moving developers astir to retool for maximum AI acceleration. …

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