I thought you were jokingly rephrasing a quote, but no that’s actually the very first paragraph jfc
ryper@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
The OP acknowledges the vibe coding, but the opening from Epic’s announcement is worth quoting:
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.
It’s like they’re saying “Our launcher sucks and we couldn’t fix it, so we used AI to make a new one”. Other companies have been able to make good launchers without AI, but Epic just couldn’t do it.
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 19 hours ago
emb@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I understand that LLMs are useful tools for programming, that they churn stuff out fast and whatever.
But I so hate this anti-intellectual, exuberant embrace of ignorance. It’s one thing to vibecode out of necessity (those single dev slop projects), or to say you’re doing agentic engineering or whatever cleanup label, but it’s so frustrating for them to purely vibecode and not even try to hide it. And then to expect us to think it’s cute.
ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
This behavior is unfortunately normal for epic, this is the same company that said their competitors giving users more information about what they are buying “irresponsible” tomshardware.com/…/epic-boss-tim-sweeney-blasts-s…
Solrac@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That’s such a Tim Sweeney move
TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That is such a whiplash from the culture of engineering excellence Epic was known for.
rtxn@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Tim has been on the sauce for a while. He basically does the opposite of everything Valve does. Valve banned blockchain-based games, Epic opened the platform to scams with asset flip “games” attached. Valve regulated AI and required disclosure, Epic is now a safe haven for shovelware and Tim is screaming into the void that publishers should be allowed to hide AI usage.
Sweeney is like the Shadiversity of gaming. Massively overcompensating for his inferiority complex and forever doomed to live in the shadow of his more successful brother.
grue@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’m OOTL on what’s wrong with Shadiversity. Got a link?
rtxn@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ve got links. Do you have two and a half hours and enough alcohol to numb the pain?
About the person: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8xmhI5WjA About his disgusting atrocity of a novel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOnElCEliA
tl;dw: he’s an Australian sword youtuber much criticised by the historical European martial arts community, he’s an anti-woke nutjob with a fragile sense of masculinity, he’s an “AI activist” who thinks writing words into a text box makes him an artist, and he’s the envious brother of the actual, successful artist Jazza (who seems like a genuinely fine dude). He also wrote the novel Shadow of the Conqueror, which is a boring, badly written, preachy self-insert power fantasy, where he moralizes that rape and the resulting pregnancy is good actually because motherhood is wonderful (I’m not paraphrasing that much, and it’s still fucking disgusting to think about).
Nelots@piefed.zip 17 hours ago
the Shadiversity of gaming. Massively overcompensating for his inferiority complex and forever doomed to live in the shadow of his more successful brother.
I don’t know, Shad wrote one of the worst books I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading, it’s pretty hard to beat that.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Vibe-coding a program that manages and deletes massive amounts of files, what could possibly go wrong?
Kirp123@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Also handles payment information. Oh boy.
xilophor@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
nothing could possibly go wrong
GH Issue Link if you don’t want/have time to watch the video