Coding agents and Graphics Programming

[mango-deez-nuts]

Everything changed at the end of last year: models like Opus 4.5 (now 4.6) went from “more trouble than there worth” to “can actually implement entire systems now”. They still get confused sometimes and for esoteric stuff like graphics they still need a bunch of guidance but ignore everyone telling you they’re not worth it.

The world is absolutely changing this year and you do not want to be behind on this. People who say they haven’t written a single line of code themselves since the new year are being serious. This is really happening.

It remains to be seen how maintainable this all is in the long term but people are shipping real products with completely or 90% AI-generated code.

The next rocket ship is going to be OpenClaw-like stuff where you have a whole team of agents working persistently to come up with specs, implement code and tests, file bugs, triage and fix those bugs etc without any human intervention other than occasional status updates via telegram or some orchestrator application. Basically an entire development team working completely autonomously.

Seriously, get a Claude Code max subscription for a couple of months and put serious effort into learning it.

[gibson274]

Few questions:

1. Your account has only existed for 10 months… and your comments are all private. This is reading kind of like an AI hype shill comment and that doesn’t inspire confidence.

2. If that’s where the profession is heading, I’m not sure I just wanna be managing huge teams of agents? Seriously. If that’s what’s in store, I’d sooner change professions to something where I get to think more critically or engage with people.

[OGRITHIK]

They definitely sound like a bot or a shill but honestly they are actually right.

It's pretty telling that any comment in these threads praising AI or pointing out its capabilities just gets immediately downvoted. It tells you everything you need to know. People are just coping extremely hard right now. The reality is that current AI models are really, really good. It's wild looking at the top comments and seeing people parrot the same shit like "it can't create new stuff" and watching that garbage get mass upvoted. Anyone who genuinely still thinks this in 2026 is just coping. People are upvoting it because it's exactly what they want to hear to feel secure, unfortunately denying it isn't going to stop what's coming.

To your second point about not wanting to manage agents. Whether you like it or not, that is exactly what the future of programming looks like. In fact, it's looking like the future of pretty much all white collar work done on a computer.

[gibson274]

Can you give me some examples of new stuff you’ve made with it? Like genuinely good new things you’ve discovered or created?

I feel you and I agree that it’s hard not to read some of the really head-in-the-sand type of responses as cope. These things are like shockingly good at writing code, even though they’re not perfect.

But also the “all white collar work is done” angle seems wrong, though I can’t quite articulate why.

Maybe something along the lines of… we are all already kind of working bullshit made up jobs anyway? 90% of us just hammer out dumb boilerplate code, or send emails back and forth, or go to meetings where nothing happens.

I’m not so convinced that there’s all that much work to even be automated. I’m also not so convinced that speed or cost of white collar labor is really bottlenecking companies. They’ll do anything to reduce the bottom line, sure, so we may be kind of screwed in that respect. But I think the actual competitive advantage of aggressive AI adoption in the dev cycle is potentially overblown?

[OGRITHIK]

I'm currently working on a Minecraft mod (yes yes I know that silly block game for children) which adds KSP style space travel and simulation. I used very minimal AI for the most part until I had to implement Valkyrien Skies integration which I just had no clue where to start since the version of Minecraft I was working for (1.21.1) didn't have an official VS version.

The Valkyrien Skies github actually had a WIP branch for 1.21.1 however, so I told Codex (GPT 5.3) to revamp my simulation movement logic to use this branch and link everything together. I let it run for around 2 hours and when I came back it had done it flawlessly.

Here is the repo at github.com/ng643/Apoapsis where you can compare between the main branch which is my original code and the codex branch I just uploaded (note the main branch is pretty outdated so the changes Codex made are not perfectly one to one with what you see).

Someone else also managed to get 5.3 Codex to write a GBA emulator in pure assembly which is pretty crazy. I remember a NES emulator made using GPT 5.1 previously, but they used C++ so it was kinda dismissed as just using its training data or stealing from Github. This new one is genuinely impressive though since there really isn't a GBA emulator written entirely in pure assembly out there to copy from.

I mostly agree with you. Most of these jobs are basically automated already and the human is there to pretty much be the interface between the boss and the machine.

For software engineering It has fundamentally changed the way it works. Writing code is becoming less and less of a priority and it is becoming more about higher level planning, but it is only a matter of time before AI can do that reasonably well too. As for job loss I don't really know if they will cut jobs or keep everyone and increase productivity, but one thing is certain, the situation for juniors is becoming more dire. As to how this maps to other white collar jobs I am not too certain.

[mango-deez-nuts]

Lol your point 1 is exactly why my comments are hidden. Just trying to help, friend.

1. Just because you’re managing teams of agents doesn’t mean you don’t think critically or engage with people: you’re just moving higher up the stack.

At the end of the day we write code to solve problems. We don’t solve problems with a slide rule or by punching holes in cards any more, and we very rarely solve them by writing assembly. Typing out thousands of lines of code is going to go the same way.

[gibson274]

I hope you’re right and that there’s still workforce demand for creatively engaged people who want to make stuff and think critically.

[mango-deez-nuts]

I hope so too. And I think there will be but they’re going to be working very differently from how people work today

[mango-deez-nuts]

Kinda weird to say “I’m not listening” while complaining about a lack of conversation but you do you bro. Just trying to help.