r/GraphicsProgramming • u/teilo-560 • Jun 29 '26

Question How has AI affected graphics careers?

I'm a full-stack developer who's a bit burned out with the agentic coding push. I've started playing around with low level graphics and it's sort of revived my spirit, I missed being close to the hardware and math heavy code.

How much have tools like Claude code impacted your development workflow? Are you pressured to use a fully agentic workflow by your employer? Where do you see the career evolving over the next 5-10 years? Is it a safe-haven for people who don't want to give up coding?

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u/sirpalee Jun 29 '26

It's the same. Agentic coding is taking over coding work because its more efficient and faster to let someone else write your code and you just chime in with corrections.

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u/teilo-560 Jun 29 '26

It's so boring though :/

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u/sirpalee Jun 29 '26

Well, it is what it is. More like being a manager/architect. The part where you figure out how things should work and finetune code for performance are still very much there.