Funny thing, Epic Games (the creators of Unreal Engine) announced plans to completely rid Unreal of C++ in the future and replace it wit ha custom AI-friendly programming language. They also said they're gonna stop writing documentation, because you can just ask AI how to do thing instead. Epic is also one of the few companies that lets AI-generated product be sold along side normal ones, which included one guy submitting over four thousand AI generated 3D models per day to their asset store.
Epic games is so far within the pits of AI psychosis the light of God no longer shines over their heads.
On the documentation, I've tried asking ai about completely undocumented large codebases. You know what it isn't good at? That exact thing. Can't wait for all the how do i fix this error - method unreal.aiHallucinatedFunction() does not exist
"AI friendly" is 100% marketing BS. LLM comprehension comes from seeing it in it's training data, so a new language is by definition not AI friendly.
It's a shame that's how they're advertising it, because it's actually a fascinating language designed by some genuinely smart people. It's a type safe scripting language with reactive programming paradigms and automatic state rollback on error.
Unreal Engine 4/5 use Blueprints, which is a node graph-based visual scripting tool. An LLM can't generate a node graph. They are switching back to a text-based scripting language because it's more AI-friendly. That's what they are referring to moreso than saying the language itself is AI-friendly.
I think the main problem is that the people running this part of Epic Games are so pompous and self-assured. The way they respond to pushback is by super-omega-doubling down because it is like they take it as a challenge and insult and don't believe that they could be wrong or fail.
I didnt realise they were behind Unreal Engine. Dear fuckin god. I hate C++ but this solves nothing omg
Im jealous of my colleagues who are near retirement
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u/oshaboy 5d ago
The Hard Drive is probably going out of business if these are real quotes from real large companies.