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Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done

https://www.avclub.com/epic-games-disney-ai-delay
31•pavel_lishin•1h ago

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PunchyHamster•31m ago
Gonna be interesting flop
hypfer•19m ago
Arguably, that game is the right testing ground for this kind of development pattern.

Ashes to ashes. Slop to slop.

arealaccount•17m 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.

Jcampuzano2•15m 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.

joshstrange•8m ago
Agreed, you've got to have had your head in the ground to be "stunned" by what is largely "industry standard" now.
avaer•6m ago
A vocal minority of gamers is one of the most anti-AI consumers out there. They'll review bomb games they think are using AI without realizing ~all games now use it, and they are only cancelling the ones that have the decency to disclose it.

When you're developing for that crowd it's easy to be behind the times and stunned by this kind of announcement.

whateveracct•5m ago
i miss the days when my text editor was a blackbox to those above me in the org chart.

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
343•ilreb•5h ago•187 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
288•prophittcorey•5h ago•120 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
28•zdw•1h ago•1 comments

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
336•whimblepop•2h ago•195 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
283•Zeekaas•9h ago•512 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

67•vishnukool•4h ago•46 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
202•djfergus•8h ago•53 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
222•scrlk•9h ago•248 comments

Muse Wonder

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
435•meetpateltech•4h ago•223 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
197•gregsadetsky•2d ago•75 comments

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
238•gumby•4h ago•195 comments

Introducing OpenFatigue

https://openfatigue.ai/
144•ajcp•2h ago•30 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
201•bookofjoe•1d ago•164 comments

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback
68•PaulHoule•2h ago•47 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
96•surprisetalk•6h ago•23 comments

Thinking will become a hobby

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
159•pranitha_m•4h ago•206 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
245•deadxwarrior•14h ago•130 comments

Solar panels that plug into your wall

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
63•speckx•7h ago•62 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
688•royfish•22h ago•330 comments

Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done

https://www.avclub.com/epic-games-disney-ai-delay
32•pavel_lishin•1h ago•7 comments

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm
54•speckx•3h ago•7 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
224•lukaslalinsky•16h ago•80 comments

QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387
351•bwnkl•9h ago•388 comments

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

https://simonkoeck.com/writeups/google-devsite-flask-session-pickle-rce
159•soeckly•13h ago•76 comments

(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers

https://words.filippo.io/right-answers/
72•gavide•8h ago•12 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
248•subset•2d ago•48 comments

Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries

https://github.com/morluto/rea
64•taytus•4h ago•19 comments

Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer

https://www.wired.com/story/feds-got-warrants-to-use-fake-cell-towers-to-hunt-down-don-lemons-pro...
116•rndsignals•4h ago•73 comments

Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJyuJhDnlc
13•fabianhjr•1h ago•1 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
515•Anon84•1d ago•505 comments