Epic Thinks You'll Love Its New Vibe Coded Game Launcher
Laying off workers for AI is nothing to celebrate.
Igor Bonifacic for Engadget
There's no two ways about: the Epic Games Store (EGS) launcher is bad. Even Epic CEO Tim Sweeny has admitted as much, describing it as "clunky" in an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman last year. So you would think a redesign would be good news, right? Think again. Because the way Epic has decided to promote this release fails to read the room.
"Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that's way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look," the company gleefully writes by way of introduction in its latest Epic Games Store blog post. The announcement comes just one day after Sweeny said Epic was in the midst of a major AI pivot. "The aim isn't to do the...
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