Dev reports Unreal's built-in AI assistant closes the editor for rebuilds with no way to restart it
FanaHOVA · x · 2026-11-15
Developer Daniel (FanaHOVA) publicly complains that Unreal's new built-in AI assistant is "unusable" for him. Running Codex + Astra inside Unreal, the assistant keeps deciding to close the editor to do a native rebuild — but then has no way to restart it, so the task just stops.
He notes this isn't an issue with the ChatGPT app itself since it runs as a separate process, and asks whether he's missing something. The report highlights a common pitfall of deeply embedding AI agents in game-engine workflows: granting the agent destructive operations over the host app without recovery mechanisms.
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