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Are you physically incapable of waiting any longer for Grand Theft Auto VI, which has been in development for over a decade? Worse yet, are you someone who doesn’t own a console, meaning you’ll probably have to wait at least another year before the double-dippers at Rockstar decide to release it on PC?
Well, don’t worry. Some AI bro is trying to vibe code their own version of the much-hyped GTA sequel before the real one is finally released — supposedly, definitely, this September.
“Day 1 of building GTA 6. Still feels fake typing that out. Upgraded to Claude Max 20x for this,” the coder, Ziwen Xu, tweeted Wednesday, attaching a video of a bean shaped default model hopping between obstacles on a nondescript landscape running on the popular Unreal engine.
“The goal: beat the real GTA 6 to launch,” he enthused. “Ambitious, probably stupid, doing it anyway.”
Day 1 of building GTA 6. Still feels fake typing that out.
Upgraded to Claude Max 20x just for this. Spent a couple hours getting the whole project structured and pushed to the repo. Sandbox is up and running.
No studio, no publisher. Just whoever shows up. We picked Godot on… https://t.co/ZTe74CCEMV pic.twitter.com/t30hiReAK1 — Ziwen (@ziwenxu_) June 10, 2026
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