Martin Scott

One area where agents utterly destroy humans is analysis. Point Opus at some multithreaded code and it will find stuff you wouldn’t believe. We asked it to analyse some mature UE code we have, been used for years, and it found stuff we had no idea about.

The breadth of the attention mechanism outstrips humans by orders of magnitude. Even if you are one of the AI Amish and still write all your own code, get an agent to find errors at least. You owe yourself that.

A mistake is an opportunity to learn, not a reason to stop.

Why do games never come out early ? Why are they never finished ahead of schedule ?

Because the moment there is daylight between the projected end date and the deadline someone somewhere will add more features in there to fill the gap

So they either come out on time (unlikely), or late.

I can see why Epic have doubled down on AI and an accelerated route to a slimmed down and restructured UE6. There is a window of opportunity right now where agentic workflow focused tech has the ability to overtake the current engines. It's all about iteration time and how much can be automated and customised.

Existing tech stacks are going to struggle to restructure around the ability to drive *everything* from an agent. Full headless operation, comprehensive test coverage, smart asset pipelines and packaging, custom per-title tooling, bespoke optimised core systems. This isn't just driving the UI via MCP, this is designing around agent access at every level.

Building from the ground up, with agents as the primary customer, means you gain an automation advantage at every single point of contact. You're not going to be able to restructure that radically while keeping all the creaking old systems working in parallel... you're just burning time before the inevitable happens.

Ask your agent for a list of features that would accelerate agentic development of your project. Get the list logged as issues and get them done early... give your agents everything they need to automate as much of your workflow as possible.