Minecraft's reclusive billionaire creator has gone from ‘reject AI’ to vibe coding: 'Time to eat some crow'

Minecraft creator Markus Persson said AI coding advocates were "incompetent or evil" in January. By July, he said it was ...
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Minecraft's creator went from 'reject AI' to vibe coding

Swedish video game programmer and designer Markus Persson spent the first half of 2026 telling anyone who'd listen that AI ...
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Feel less bad about firing AI agents, Minecraft creator says vibe coding will replace human developers

Vibe coding has changed the way we code. Ever since AI tools got good at coding – think Claude Code, Codex, and the works – almost every company or developer wants to use AI to write code. And now ...
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Notch answers Q&A thread on Reddit, talks Minecraft, game development, and the gender of his beard

Markus Persson, also known as “Notch,” is the developer and creator of Minecraft. The open-world sandbox game focuses on building, crafting, and mining within a randomly generated virtual world, and ...
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Uh, I’m Sorry, Where Was I When ‘Minecraft’ Creator, Notch, Announced He Was Developing a Roguelike and ‘Minecraft 2’?

Well, isn’t this a surprise! Minecraft creator, Markus Persson — AKA “Notch” — decided to grace the gaming world with a casual announcement. Apparently, Notch is developing games again! Over on X, he ...