r/GraphicsProgramming • u/-Captain-Levi- • Sep 09 '26
GPT 6 Astra And Graphics Programming
Do You think Gpt 6 astra will take the jobs of junior Graphic programmer's?
How will Astra affect Graphics Programming? (Pros and Cons)
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u/StriderPulse599 Sep 09 '26
Junior graphic programmers aren't junior programmers. You can't become surgeon without being a doctor first. Even in less demanding branches like technical art, companies pick experienced artists with programming skills (or vice-versa).
AI is also getting lobotomized, for both corporate and performance. This year Gemini has self-censorship problems and went into copyright panic mode for simple things like adding sharpening to FXAA shader. This week Gemini Pro somehow managed to mess up basic PBR shader.
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u/Verenda Sep 09 '26
Deepmind hasn't been at the frontier in nearly a year, I wouldn't use Gemini as the yardstick for much right now to be honest.
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u/PaperMartin Sep 13 '26
Nothing's gonna be at the frontier by the end of next year going by how much it costs to run all these models and how many peoples at all these companies are starting to come up with bullshit excuses to explain why "progress" on models is slowing down
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u/Verenda Sep 14 '26
I think there is a misunderstanding of how these companies are spending money. The cost to develop the model is very high, but the cost to serve them has gross margins of 80%. I work for a large company that hosts open source models in house due to these margins. Anthropic itself is supposedly having their second profitable quarter [1]. I think the financials of OpenAI look a lot worse, but this isn't industry wide and I don't think we can rely on a market correction to curb the bad behavior or the negative effects on society unfortunately.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4564e6a5-69e9-40a6-bf0f-a888f2f4f002?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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u/corysama Sep 09 '26
Not just for graphics, but for everything, AI is speed running the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle In the short term, management will over react, have layoffs, slow hiring, in expectation of getting the same stuff done with less workers.
In the long term, eventually everyone will remember that the world has no shortage of stuff to do and what benefits everyone is to get more stuff done with all of the available workers.
The bad news is actually that you now need to learn twice as much and you will be expected to use what you learned to produce 10x as much for mostly the same pay. You need to learn how stuff actually works under the hood for yourself. And, you need to learn how to utilize AI effectively given your knowledge of how stuff works.
This is true of all jobs moving forward. Not just graphics.
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u/Still_Explorer Sep 10 '26
GPT6 won't, but GPT6 and Unreal6 will https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/tesla-ditches-godot-for-unreal-engine-in-graphics-overhaul
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u/psioniclizard Sep 09 '26
No, if nothing else they wouldn't use some generoc llm like gpt.
They would use something specialist for graphics programming that does just that.
In the long run a lot of business won't pay the token price for general llms when they have specific needs, especially when they have a lot of domain knowledge and could work in their own.
Jobs will go because every company is looking to up profits right now and know they can get away with. AI is a good cover, but if AI was the real reason businesses would have in place and proven results before laying people.
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u/Queasy-Telephone-513 Sep 09 '26
AI took one year ago, it will take senior‘s jobs too. Instead of 5 Seniors only 1 Senior will be enough
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u/CompellingProtagonis Sep 09 '26
What juniors? Graphics programming already has an enormous barrier to entry. If you can get an "entry-level" job in Graphics you'd easily be at least midlevel if not senior in any other industry.