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title: 'In the News: November 9, 2026 (Midday)'
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# In the News: November 9, 2026 (Midday)


Epic Games says its newest Unreal Engine Preview was built mostly by agents, in roughly a week, and it lists what that cost in testing and code cleanup.

## 1. Epic ships an Unreal Engine preview it says was built mainly by directed agent fleets

**[Unreal Engine 5.9 MegaJam Preview](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-9-megajam-preview/2852840)** · Epic Games announcement · Epic Developer Community Forums, November 9, 2026

Epic describes the release as "the first Unreal Engine release built primarily with agentic workflows." Per the announcement, a handful of people directed fleets of agents to port AI tooling from the UE6 development branch and to add the web as a target platform. Agents wrote the web platform code, starting from UE4's retired HTML5 platform, while engineers directed, reviewed and tested the work. Epic says the preview had about a week of development and a shorter QA pass than usual.

The post is specific about the leftovers. Epic says it is still cleaning up some of the agent-written code and that parts of the web renderer are prototypes it plans to refactor before the full 5.9 release. The known-issues list that follows covers web crashes and data loss, and the Mac and Linux prebuilt downloads are missing part of the Wasm support files, with a fix build planned this week. The preview itself ships experimental Unreal MCP toolsets and an in-editor assistant panel that works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode. Epic says it will use the November 12 to 15 Epic AI MegaJam to collect bug reports, with agents helping triage them.

**Why it matters:** This is a large engine vendor stating, in its own release notes, how an agent-built release was staffed, what shipped on a shortened QA pass, and what code still needs human cleanup. Teams weighing the same trade can treat those details as one data point. They are Epic's account; we did not test the build or review the code.