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EPIC BANS HAND-WRITTEN CODE

By Zimbo · October 12, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: a weary game developer in padded mittens stares at a monitor where code types itself, his keyboard chained shut with a padlock; a worried robot hovers useless hands over his own chained keyboard while a tabby cat lounges on the monitor, under a wall sign reading AI FIRST.
Epic delayed its unannounced Disney shooter — starring Star Wars and Marvel characters — and ordered the team to go ‘AI first’: no more hand-written code, all art generated by AI. The people hired to make the game are now forbidden from making it by hand.Zimbo for AI News Page
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