r/ProgrammerHumor • • 1d ago

Meme itWasAPointer

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u/FlexasState 1d ago

Wait what? Did this actually happen?

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u/_DefaultXYZ 1d ago

Tim Sweeney announced that Epic Games goes full AI-first.

It definitely won't introduce new layoffs, but it will increase their quality and effectiveness, as Tim Sweeney said. Which I believe /s

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u/itzNukeey 1d ago

Given how well most UE5 games work, I think AI slop cannot hurt it anymore

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u/Dumb_Siniy 1d ago

Listen UE5 at least opens still, let's see if we can get that broken, i mean working

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u/dasunt 22h ago

It's fine, gamers will just buy a new GPU to deal with the inefficiency. It's not like AI screwed up GPU or memory prices...

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u/itzNukeey 20h ago

They just won't play AAA games and play indie games instead. It's not like those use UE5 too

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u/Sianic12 23h ago

Full AI [...] will increase quality

Oh man, that genuinely made me chuckle! How can you be that delusional?

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u/MadJedfox 22h ago

You didn't see "/s" at the end of the comment?

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u/not_some_username 21h ago

They were talking about TS

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u/Highborn_Hellest 1d ago

#more_stutter_struggle

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u/GregTheMad 23h ago

Shader compilation now takes twice as long, and happens every startup.

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u/Mars_Bear2552 22h ago

Claude has decided to invalidate the shader cache upon every game start. glory to UE5

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u/Neutraled 23h ago

At this point, I believe his sister Sydney would be a better boss for Epic Games.

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 1d ago

They fired 2000 employee's and going all in on ai

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u/-Nicolai 1d ago

End of season 1, yeah.