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Facebook X Reddit Flipboard Email 0 us You won't me venturing deep the coding mines, even so, thinking the comment-less form AI-assisted can often take gives me a stress So you can imagine my when Tim Sweeney confirmed via X, we are now AI tools to for Unreal Engine." is unsurprising given in an Unreal Engine blog post back in Epic’s executive VP development Marcus Wassmer that the company had up pretty broad for generation and AI analysis our backend, engine, and development engineering teams." More Wassmer offered a follow-up statement to in Videogames, saying, "We are more the risks moving too than we are AI skepticism." we are vibe-coding Wassmer elaborates in his most statement, "That means our are no longer writing the the code, they are guiding the tools to the architectural result we want. not ‘one-shotting’ the engine; with AI to ship features want and keep the engine within the performance, and scalability envelopes." Videos FromPC Gamer full video here: follows comments made Sweeney earlier week, in which came out against AI disclosure statements, claiming that they are as partisan as mandatory essays." The before, Epic had an AI jam (shortly before back the AI requirement), and the before that the company said it had coded the Epic Games Launcher to faster than the other guy." Wassmer in his statement yesterday, "As we mentioned back Unreal Fest in Chicago on and in interviews, we are definitely AI to and features for Unreal Engine. development happening right now is being in the dev streams attached to [Unreal Editor for Fortnite], and @mattworkman Forcing to write a statement to against them the hate mob helping organize is abhorrent.October 2026 Epic is a number AI tools, Wassmer specifically mentions Claude and "[These tools are] helping a broad spectrum with some particularly big being the complete elimination non-deterministic bugs which we’ve been for a decade and an acceleration work to compressing shaders which both reduce patch sizes," Wassmer "[Other include] a rewrite a portion the D3D12 rendering (which I estimated as three to six weeks work for a engineer, the work was actually in one with a nice win on time and fewer bugs)." his full statement, Wassmer repeatedly touts the efficacy and gains Epic has made AI tools. argues that is simply the shape to come for and software adding that best way to counter [AI] skepticism is through the the games and tools able to deliver." The biggest news, reviews and hardware Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best as picked the PC Gamer team. "We think it’s viable to take a approach to AI in development," concludes, "We think it’s best to up front with what doing, best practices with other developers, and make the best we can with the best tools available given time." Tim Sweeney may not for AI disclosures, arguing that these "developers to write a statement to against them the hate mob." Still, perhaps something to said for the company's when it comes to its use AI tools more Disclosing 'vibe-coding' allows PC to make their own decision to engage with a or not. with information, I myself have one more to venture the 'not' camp. Best 2026 1. Best laptop: Razer 16 2. Best PC: Omen 35L 3. Best PC: Asus ROG Xbox X 4. Best mini PC: Minisforum G7 PT 5. Best headset: Meta Quest 👉Check out our list guides👈 Jess Kinghorn Hardware Writer Jess has been writing games for ten years, spending a that time working on print publications and Official PlayStation Magazine. When not investigating hardware here, she's constructing a passionate defence a game, daydreaming her novel, or feeling wistful the time she chased some nerds a field with an oversized foam
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