Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮1d ago

God damn, Epic lays off 1000+ people

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/todays-layoffs

Today’s layoffs

Epic Games
Show threadkazord1d ago

@gamingonlinux
"spending significantly more than we're making"
+ https://dev.epicgames.com/community/assistant

"Since it's a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren't related to AI. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can."

Pretty sure the ai spending is not null

Epic Developer Assistant

Epic Developer Assistant is an AI assistant that guides developers through the Unreal Editor for Fortnite creative process. It can answer questions, provide tips and generate code in Verse that creators can bring into their projects.

Epic Games Developer
Show threadKing_DuckZ
@kazord @gamingonlinux "aren't related to #AI" that's likely true as in devs didn't get replaced by sentient laptops, however AI driving the price of hardware up means players have less money to spend on games, dev machines and build servers cost more, subcontractors fees get higher, cloud and infrastructure's bill increases. So in that sense it's very related to AI
Mar 24 at 3:40pmWeb
Show threadkazord1d ago
@duckz @gamingonlinux "Market conditions today are the most extreme [.] massive opportunity for the companies that come out as winners on the other side. [.] we aim to bring other like-minded developers in the industry along on the journey to build an increasingly open and vibrant future of entertainment together."
Read it like : we want AI-open minded developers, to build AI generated Fortnite (or other game) to be the AI-gamz generator leading company
(But no not AI related)