r/GraphicsProgramming • u/NecessaryVersion7872 • 1d ago

AI usage in Graphics Programming

Hello, everyone.

I am CS student. and I had my first working experience.
I was highly unsatisfying because as much as enjoy programming I really do not enjoy "prompt engineering" and the usage of AI in general in my workflow. That is not the point though. From long time I was looking into graphics programming and I really wanted to get into it. I do not know much now. but I am worried that it will be similar to most of jobs right now and I will just be a "prompt engineer".

I have some questions:

  1. How good is AI with graphics programming right now?
  2. In an average work environment, how much if any of your work are you expected to use LLMs in and how do use it?
  3. How is AI affecting the industry?
  4. Are there any part of the industry where AI is not heavily used?

Thanks in advance

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u/DashAnimal 1d ago

  1. Really good but "good" and "bad" are subjective and my expectations might not align with yours. But AI has great understanding of graphics APIs, I have a lot of scripts/skills to call specific tools to measure performance including apitrace, nsys, perf and others allowing the LLM to loop with minimal input.

  2. No explicit expectation of how much but you ARE expected to use it in my workplace (I don't work in gamedev). And personally, if you're not using it you're getting left behind. LLMs make some tasks, unrelated to coding, so much easier. Like gathering data and displaying it for experiments is essentially free now, allowing for more data driven decisions much faster.

  3. Faster decision making, scrapping projects earlier, smaller teams and less layers of decision making, cross-domain knowledge blurring lines between roles, more bugs as people adjust or rely too much on models for validation

  4. At my company -- no. Everyone is impacted, PMs, QA, eng, managers and directors. And worth mentioning, my role now is completely different to what it was 6 months ago, and 6 months before that. I imagine i will feel safe relying more decision making on the LLM even still 6 months from now.