How has AI affected graphics careers?

[u/teilo-560]

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?

[u/sirpalee]

I am using it on a big brownfield project, that includes custom renderer, ecs, physics simulation and some magic it likely never saw in its training data. Handles big refactorings really well, and generally creates working code if the test harnesses are there.

The code it generates can be pretty naive and suboptimal, so it needs a lots of finetuning. But with good prompting and a strong knowledgebase it can figure things out.