Epic Just Told Its Devs to Stop Hand-Writing Code

Epic Games has delayed its secret Disney shooter — the one reportedly crossing Star Wars with Marvel — and the fix for falling behind is, apparently, fewer humans typing. A Bloomberg report says an internal message told developers there'd be "no more hand-written code," with art moving to "full AI workflows," Claude included. The game was slated for March 2027. Now there's no date at all.

Fortnite crossover key art with Star Wars characters — a taste of what the delayed Disney project is aiming for Fortnite x Star Wars already exists. The Disney project reportedly adds Marvel to the mix — and it just lost its March 2027 release window with nothing scheduled to replace it.

The Epic Games booth at a convention floor — the studio behind the "AI-first" mandate that reportedly stunned its developers Developers were reportedly taken aback by the pipeline shift. The reporting frames it as a speed problem, not a headcount cut — but "no more hand-written code" is not a sentence you'd have heard at a AAA studio five years ago.

Here's the honest take: if Epic pulls this off, every studio in town copies it overnight. If it flops, it becomes a business-school case study with lightsabers in the footnotes.

Watch the full breakdown: TechMinute — Epic Goes AI-First

Source: Bloomberg