Orgs using vibe coded as a sales pitch, Lord.
“Programming is hard,” Epic says in a blog post. “So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher”
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https://www.theverge.com/games/1010751/epic-games-launcher-vibe-coded-ai-linux
Fun side quest if anybody wants to join me - check out Epic Games Launcher for security vulnerabilities.
The new vibe coded Epic project is great
10/10 slop
BlueSky announcing their pivot to AI vibe code slop, not via BlueSky but X, was on my bingo card.
@GossiTheDog Maybe I'll be wrong. But I get a strange feeling that there'll be a not-insignificant size Reddit thread talking about how crap and buggy the new launcher is within a matter of days...
@GossiTheDog oh hell nah
Oct 14, 2026, 4:13 PM@GossiTheDog
Lol
@GossiTheDog fish… barrel?
@GossiTheDog Also don't forget to hammer the #Rootkit they install and see if you can abuse it!
@GossiTheDog Sloptastic! 🤦♂️
Oct 14, 2026, 5:22 PM@GossiTheDog I love that this shit makes it out into the world.
It makes me feel better about my "skill."
@GossiTheDog What was wrong with the old launcher? It still seems good to me.
Oct 14, 2026, 9:07 PMThe old launcher is really bad, it lags a LOT and for most gamers, having Fab and UE library and the store combined felt like bloat. Funnily for me, it is the games and library sections that lag and freeze. It is embarassing how terrible their launchers are.
I haven't seen the new slop launcher, but the old one is hated by almost everyone. I might just move to Heroic rather than use new slop
How the actual fuck is shit this bad being shipped???
Corporate has completely lost the plot 🤣
Oct 14, 2026, 8:47 PM@nullagent @GossiTheDog it happens the same way a lot of junk comes out of Google and Microsoft. From the outside they look like big monoliths, but on the inside you have a bunch of teams all desperately scrambling for recognition (see also "crabs in a bucket"). There’s a good chance that those teams are incentivized or measured on how fast and publicly they do things not on how well they do things.
I can understand it even though I’m not in that world. If I’m a low to mid-level "contributor" in one of those companies and I’ve been there for a few years, the company performance has absolutely nothing to do with what I get paid - and these days any individual contribution that I may have been responsible for is going to be overshadowed by some executive's vibecoding because they want to put their stamp on it.
Maybe I get a bonus at the department level if we ship. I can even use that as a talking point when I’m interviewing, because if I’ve been there for more than three years, I may be looking at jumping ship to another company. And if the product is crap, I can use that as part of my interviewing as well because obviously I left because the company insists on releasing vibe coded slop, and I’d like to go someplace where I can actually contribute.
But perhaps I’m overly cynical.
Oct 14, 2026, 8:50 PM@nullagent @GossiTheDog by the way, have you heard about Microsoft's amazing new product, Copilot Shimmer?
@fencepost @GossiTheDog @nullagent that sounds pretty bang on
Oct 14, 2026, 5:26 PM@GossiTheDog but hey, it starts up faster than steam
LMFAO.
Oct 14, 2026, 5:29 PM@da_667 @GossiTheDog I take shits faster than Steam boots, but I wouldn't ship my shit to people.
Oct 14, 2026, 5:33 PM@NosirrahSec @da_667 @GossiTheDog now come on, I think we all would ship our shit to *some* people.
Oct 14, 2026, 5:30 PM@GossiTheDog is it functional? Who cares? We finally beat Valve at something that matters not fucking at all
Oct 14, 2026, 5:33 PM@da_667 @GossiTheDog meanwhile gaben is like "im taking up throat singing"
@da_667 @GossiTheDog And PSA you can still add their free games when a good one comes up to your account via their web site...just so you know ;)
@da_667 @GossiTheDog An entire day has passed, and Steam apparently released a startup performance fix.
It's still ridiculously long, though. (Steam's startup performance, that is—12 sec until my library is shown, I just measured)
Oct 14, 2026, 6:57 PM@GossiTheDog this is the company that needed a petition to get them to make fixes on Unreal and then made a pretty basic UT that suddenly got better once Q3’s demo was released and some ideas could be copied.
Imo if he didn’t push his engine on everyone the company wouldn’t exist. That’s why he wants to be able to push his crap store on everyone. Lock in is their only means of survival.
@GossiTheDog "Thoroughly tested"
@GossiTheDog 🤣🤣🤣 quality code right there
@GossiTheDog oh my god, it hurts from laughing so hard.
if a company is going to slop it up and brag about it, at least make ii presentable. lmao fuck.
@GossiTheDog Can't your computer already launch programs anyway? Why is Epic recreating desktop functionality from three decades ago?
@GossiTheDog haha. Knew it
@GossiTheDog What an unexpected outcome! I'm shocked!
Oct 15, 2026, 6:25 PM@GossiTheDog What the heck?! How did they even manage to do that? This looks like some next-level GUI toolkit breakage!
@GossiTheDog oh cool they finally cracked one of the fundamental challenges of computing (displaying things on a screen)
@GossiTheDog Hey, but it's 0.06 seconds faster than Steam to restore from the task bar. Way to go!
@GossiTheDog WHAT!?!!
Whoa
Oct 16, 2026, 2:24 AM@pjohanneson @charliejane @GossiTheDog not even Linux is safe.
Oct 16, 2026, 3:55 AM@charliejane @GossiTheDog Things that make me very unhappy, but not at all surprised.
Oct 16, 2026, 1:06 AMYet more reasons to love Fedi!
We live in the most depressing timeline.
Cool. Maybe I'll make a site that tracks climate change.
@GossiTheDog maybe someone can talk Attie into vibe-coding a web shell into BlueSky infra if having it make an infostealer or crypto miner gets boring.
@GossiTheDog oh they did it on bsky too, maybe that was a bit later
@GossiTheDog Top 8? From, like, 20 years ago?
@GossiTheDog At first I read that as "shite builder" and I think that's more realistic.
@GossiTheDog
Aside from LinkedIn, Twitter is the perfect place for nonsense.
BINGO!
Oct 16, 2026, 6:08 AM
"That your friends will argue about for a week…"
And there we have it
"It's all about me me me MEEEE!!!l
Not sure those VCs are getting their $100M worth 🤔
Oct 16, 2026, 6:41 PM@GossiTheDog it would be fascinating to tease out the precise nature of the mutually parasitical relationship between Twitter and BlueSky
@GossiTheDog and I thought their current launcher was bad... 😅
Oct 14, 2026, 5:27 PM@GossiTheDog Already gonna lol
@GossiTheDog oh that’s why people mentioned uninstalling EGS
Also puts their “we’re going AI first” press release from Monday into perspective
Oct 14, 2026, 4:22 PM@GossiTheDog @nullpo "programming is hard, so instead of doing that, we shit out something that both looks like garbage and doesn't work"
@GossiTheDog Great! More reasons not to give Epic my money.
@philpem @GossiTheDog We are not Luddites for wanting humans to create our diversions.
Oct 14, 2026, 4:27 PM@GossiTheDog braindead
