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What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer

Hacker News · Jul 1, 2026, 5:53 PM

Key takeaways

  • I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer.
  • I think ML as it is right now won t live up to the hype, and the pendulum will swing away from ML a bit over the next couple years.
  • Modern rendering is sort of like two jobs in one.

I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer. I figured it was time to make a page to link instead of re-typing it each time.

We are in a strange time with LLMs. I think ML as it is right now won t live up to the hype, and the pendulum will swing away from ML a bit over the next couple years. I think the grifters will move onto quantum computing next or find some other thing to pump and dump. However, ML itself does have a place in the computer science tool box, so learning about the fitting and optimization techniques it offers is valuable IMO. I made a video you can watch to learn about the bare metal bits, but it s up to you if you think it s worth while to learn or not.Machine Learning For Game Developershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTAqWRsEiy0

Modern rendering is sort of like two jobs in one.

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