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Average time-to-redundancy: 11.3 months
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Your job has an expiration date
April 14, 2028
In 1 year, 6 monthsYour shader graph is just a vanity project for a GPU.
Senior Tech Artist (mostly broken shaders, emotionally node-based).
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Visual fidelity without the human ego.
oof.youAI▸ SHADERSYNTH-9000▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 1 YEAR, 6 MONTHSAI's Special Power
optimizes draw calls in real-time
You bridge the gap between art and code using complex shaders and performance optimization tools.
The one thing AI can't do
You can sense when an artist's lighting choice will tank the console's frame rate.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Sensors map your entire texture library and shader inventory.
Month 4
Automated models take over lighting bake and performance testing.
Month 8
Scripts handle all asset importing and memory budget enforcement.
Month 13
AI writes optimized HLSL code faster than a human types.
Month 18 · D-Day
You are replaced by a headless server rack running game optimization.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.3%
Zero
Frame budget overruns
None
Coffee consumed per day
Instant
Shader compilation time
Your severance
A lifetime supply of non-transferable shader presets.
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