What Tim Sweeney thinks about code generation

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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1. 30 Apr 2025

   Our readingAI writes code well only where a million repositories have already written it; getting it to do something genuinely new remains notoriously hard.

   Their wordsAI is really great at spewing out code that does something that a million GitHub repositories already do because it's learned the underlying pattern. It's notoriously hard to get to do something new that hasn't been done before, especially when it's a complex task.

   ↗Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467youtube.com 9th of 22 in this recording