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VikingCodertoday at 5:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

"And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend."

How will they achieve cleaner code, with fewer workers? Seems like a well-intentioned platitude.


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rybosworldtoday at 6:19 PM

That messaging is for investors. To a dev's ears, it's a meaningless thing to say.

It reminds me when Elon took over twitter and made a comment to the effect of "we need to rethink the entire tech stack from the ground up". Someone asked Elon what was wrong with the tech stack, and he called them a jackass.

Joel_Mckaytoday at 5:35 PM

Or... studio publishers may be encouraged to use a proprietary platform specific engine. Trying to dethrone UE5 would be silly. =3