Epic's Reported 'AI First' Pivot Comes With an Indefinite Delay
Epic Games is reportedly shifting to an 'AI first' development strategy for its collaboration with the Walt Disney Company, letting AI models write all the code. The account comes from Bloomberg, which cites unnamed people familiar with the project. The same reporting says the project has been delayed indefinitely amid the AI-related shakeup, along with understaffed, slower-than-expected development. 'AI first' describes where the code is supposed to come from, not evidence that the work arrives sooner. The marker attached to the pivot so far is a schedule that has slipped indefinitely — a good reason to keep the strategy separate from the shipped thing.
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Notice what the claim covers: models writing the code says something about who produces it, not yet about whether the result is good or on time.
The reporting does attach an outcome, though — an indefinite delay, with development described as understaffed and slower than expected.
And people are not written out of it: developers are said to manage and guide what the models generate, which sounds like a changed job rather than no job.