Epic is constantly laying mines at its own feet. When Tim Sweeney isn't stirring a pot of controversy on X, the company is throwing itself into AI-first development and, as of last night, rolling out previews for a vibecoded launcher while taking potshots at Steam. Unsurprisingly, the new EGS is a complete and utter mess. "Straight into garbage it goes," said @ShyVortex. "Fastest uninstallation of all time."

Users report broken buttons, floating icons, the launcher outright freezing, a ghosting effect when dragging the window, and the launcher no longer asking where you want to install a game, instead picking a location at random. Naturally, in the middle of all this backlash, Tim Sweeney announced that Fortnite is now supported on Linux, thanks once again to vibecoding. Given that handing the programming reins to AI has made an already infamously buggy, feature-deprived platform even worse, I wouldn't expect Fortnite to fare much better.

"It's a miracle Epic Games lacks a mascot like Discord, because some artist on this site would depict it boiling alive in the Land Battleship by now," said @YZsFerrari.

Those vibecoded 'game inside of game' projects and fan-made PC ports that are polluting the modding scene might seem novel from the outside, but clips are often cherry-picked for the best results. Underneath it all is spaghetti code exacerbating performance issues and bugs, which is incredibly hard to fix when you don't have any programming know-how and are throwing tokens at Claude hoping that it'll listen and not hallucinate.

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