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Epic Games reportedly delays Disney shooter title so it can pivot to AI coding — staff allegedly told 'no more handwritten code' with art 'generated with full AI workflows' (thelemmy.club)
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Epic Games has reportedly delayed a shooter based on Disney’s Marvel and Star Wars franchises, with its developers told to use more AI. According to Bloomberg, the yet-to-be-named game was supposed to be released in March of 2027, but its launch date has been pushed back to an unspecified date. Aside from that, the company also told the people working on the project to switch to an "AI first" production model. One of the game directors was quoted telling staff that there will be “no more handwritten code” and that the game’s art would now be "generated with full AI workflows."

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[–] 2 points 1 day ago

The cyclical economy has been a thing since economics started.

John Maynard Keynes proposed that we should tightening spending and save for a rainy day in boom times (taking money out of cycle), and splurge and spend to stimulate the economy when times were bad (flowing money into the dry cycle to top it up)... He thought the government should make those two counter moves happen. Make people save when times were good, and give them stimulus to spend when times were bad... Because it would smooth out the cycle and make markets and society appear more stable.

In practice whilst we can sometimes do the 'stimulus' part, businesses still tend to over spend in boom times, making the highs and lows worse.

Often society will vote in right wing austerity rulers when a crash happens, rulers who will cut services when the economy goes bust (starving the economy further rather than stimulating spending).

So the human inclination to save money when times are hard (keeping money out of cycle), and over spend when times are good (putting money in when they could afford to save for a rainy day) - is difficult to avoid.

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