Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (avclub.com)
38 points by pavel_lishin an hour ago
Jcampuzano2 22 minutes ago
> “No more hand-written code” and that the game will be “generated with full AI workflows,” employees were reportedly “stunned,” which many hoped the news was some kind of sick joke.
The biggest surprise to me is that they're reporting that the employees themselves are surprised. I don't personally know a single dev who would or even should be "surprised" by this given the current industry state.
This doesn't even really seem headline news worthy. Practically every large company you've ever heard of is doing exactly the same thing right now. And I know very few devs who actually hand-write basically anything right now even if its just an unspoken truth.
At my job it's essentially the same. Everyone is actively encouraged to use AI to move faster and barely anybody writes code by hand.
Note this is not me making a value judgement saying this is good or bad, its just my observation. Having very little hand-written code is quickly becoming the norm.
mycocola a few seconds ago
I think you'd be also stunned about the custom scripting/tooling studios have built for themselves over the years. Like the Blueprint system of Unreal, and plenty of low-code scene editors and map editors.
Since games are fuzzy, it's also important that developers are in touch with the underlying systems of what makes the games games, and that requires understanding those systems -- easily done through writing and modifying them.
joshstrange 16 minutes ago
Agreed, you've got to have had your head in the ground to be "stunned" by what is largely "industry standard" now.
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slg 10 minutes ago
There’s this tendency for a lot of tech folks to think their expertise in tech gives them special insights into other disciplines. Often when this happens, they’ll be doomed by missing many of the details that the old domain experts took for granted. I feel like AI is going to supercharge that. Lots of tech folks will see an AI make a CRUD app and think that means the AI will be equally capable of making art while missing why the overwhelming majority of the art community is against generative AI. The end result will be a lot of mass market art is going to become noticeable worse in the years to come in order to earn some shareholders a few extra cents in profit.
whateveracct 13 minutes ago
i miss the days when my text editor was a blackbox to those above me in the org chart.
avh02 2 minutes ago
Omg I've been thinking about this... You have to use company provided tooling and they're sure to log every single thought of yours.
arealaccount 25 minutes ago
This is why I haven’t been able to play split screen Fortnight with my son for the past several seasons.
You used to be able to do a trick where you login with one controller, then log back out with another, then back in with the first (thanks reddit for finding that), but now that doesn’t even work.
12ajsh7 2 minutes ago
Are they trying to get bought by MBS like Electronic Arts? They know that AI figures from Slop Wars will be hated by gamers. But MBS buys any crap.
hypfer 26 minutes ago
Arguably, that game is the right testing ground for this kind of development pattern.
Ashes to ashes. Slop to slop.
PunchyHamster 39 minutes ago
Gonna be interesting flop
pfdietz 5 minutes ago
Epic will blame the workers and say they sabotaged it, I predict.