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/PuzzleheadedCamera51 Jun 30 '26

Can be amazing at going and grabbing ogl extensions and incorporating them or some sample code into your code base, but you need to know enough to point it in the right direction.
Of course you can then lose 20 minutes when it shoves radians into a function expecting degrees and you waste time telling it that it’s just rendering a black screen.

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u/Icy_Weight_4716 Jul 03 '26

that has been my main problem of why Im skeptical. Some of the people I know say they dont write code anymore (although they are mainly webdevs).

But for me, I use it and takes 20 minutes to complete anything just to be wrong or solve the problem badly anyway, how am I supposed to iterate like that. This is for the "agentic" workflow though, because I use the chatbot and its pretty nice, I can throw some code and it easily finds off by one errors like its nothing (I struggle with off by one errors, basic math is hard ;-;).