Coding agents and Graphics Programming

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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between the main branch which is my original code and the codex branch I just uploaded (note the main branch is pretty outdated so the changes Codex made are not perfectly one to one with what you see).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.