Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’
The new Epic Games Launcher is out in Preview, with Linux support and Fortnite to follow. It lands two days after Bloomberg reported Epic told its Disney game team to stop writing code by hand.
Via TNW | Gaming
“Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.”
Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in Preview for Windows, macOS and, for the first time, Linux.
Vibe coding usually means building software mostly through prompts to AI models, with little code written by hand.
The announcement came two…
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