weird flex to boast about launch times for something that runs in the background the entire time on top of saying you used AI to build it.

> Epic writes that “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.”

Yikes. These game storefronts are not exactly rocket science, they are like primitive e-commerce sites. IIRC it took Apple and Google less than a year to slap their app stores together and I would certainly expect Epic to have spent very little time on theirs originally.

But I think whatever Epic does is futile anyway, even if they hired the best of HN and hand-crafted a feature-rich masterpiece of a storefront the simple lack of interoperable multiplayer, mods and DLC would still be a massive disadvantage.