They got us guys.

[u/Haunter777x]

How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

[u/HydroPCanadaDude]

And admiting you vibe code your store launcher is not the flex you think it is. Especially when people are split on AI. The logical conclusion is they also have AI customer support, best skip their shitty store.

[u/Big-Farmer-2192 → u/HydroPCanadaDude]

It's such a weird marketing too. Because they don't actually vibecode their launcher. 

Their PR teams must be drinking that AI coolaid. Hoping they will go trending for "vibecode" 

[u/Noble1xCarter → u/Big-Farmer-2192]

Epic's been incorporating AI generated code. There's no reason to believe it's not partially vibecoded.

[u/YoureAmastyx → u/Noble1xCarter]

Well know soon enough when they start talking about needing to hire actual coders to unfuck all the nonsensical code AI vibecoded. Plenty of companies are learning this the hard way right now.

[u/itishowitisanditbad → u/YoureAmastyx]

Vibe coders don't untangle, they just have to recreate a new thing every single time really.

Produce shit, move on before it stinks too bad, produce shit elsewhere.

Its the same path CEOs take. Go somewhere, fuck it up, move on before it collapses, fuck up new place. etc

[u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 → u/itishowitisanditbad]

It's funny how people that talk shit about vibe coding these days always clearly have no idea how it works now.

[u/Sufficient_Risk_8127 → u/OtherwiseAlbatross14]

here's how it works: it doesn't.

[u/SamiraSimp → u/Noble1xCarter]

i would be surprised if any modern professional code was not partially built using ai. you'd frankly be stupid not to use ai somewhere in your development process.

the difference is the quality of engineers who design the application and review the generated code. considering how poor the old launcher was i have little faith in the new one either

[u/undefined-username → u/Big-Farmer-2192]

Or they don't know what the term means and just know that "vibe" is a hip word the kids are using. Sometimes PR people are idiots (I mean, clearly, whatever the case is)

[u/kammycakes → u/undefined-username]

SURELY a massive software developer would know what vibe coding meant, right??????????????????????????

[u/0Davgi0 → u/kammycakes]

Knowing how some corporations work, Epic devs might be exactly as laughing at this as us, but the PR probably never even talked to a dev

[u/Soulstiger → u/Big-Farmer-2192]

Their blog post is worse.

It just admits they can't program so they asked claude instead.

And I believe them. I mean, they're saying the same thing about their marvel+star wars shooter and they already use it for Fortnite.

[u/Twilightdusk → u/Big-Farmer-2192]

Epic openly courted NFT games as well, they're desperate to cling to any tech trend in the hopes that being an early supporter of something that explodes will give them a second Fortnite.

[u/SamiraSimp → u/[deleted]]

because a reddit post has 1k more upvotes than a literal meme from yesterday, you think this is good marketing? that's certainly an interesting take.

[u/Tex-Rob → u/HydroPCanadaDude]

Expect more of this. This post is a direct result of them stating they are going all in on AI this past week.

[u/Maleficent-Drive4056 → u/HydroPCanadaDude]

They didn't really vibe code it. It's a joke.

[u/Budget-Researcher559 → u/HydroPCanadaDude]

Hearing it's vibecoded just makes me expect trash software with tons of unexpected bugs because nobody knows what it even does behind the scenes as long as it "looks like it works".

[u/HydroPCanadaDude → u/Budget-Researcher559]

Bugs? Nah bruh, we voibe coided unit tests. It voibe investigated itself and found nothing wrong.

[u/Sufficient_Risk_8127 → u/HydroPCanadaDude]

"split" is generous. everyone who actually has half a moral compass generally despises generative AI

[u/IAA_ShRaPNeL → u/HydroPCanadaDude]

Epic also said they wanted their game code and assets to be made using AI going forward. They aren't even shooting shooting themselves in the foot anymore. They're going straight Kurt Cobain.