Tim Sweeney blasts Kenney's anti-AI stance: 'I run a company, I write code, I upped my expectations of AI'
Dimillian · x · 2026-10-18
After asset creator Kenney announced he was quitting AI, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney fired back sharply, calling the take "bullshit." Sweeney frames himself as a lifelong tech-tree optimist — moving from C to C++, 2D to 3D, closed source to open source — and says that running a company, writing code, and contributing to published papers have only raised his expectations of AI.
The exchange highlights the widening rift between indie creators who reject generative AI and industry leaders betting their careers on it.
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