That's something you'll only understand after trying to build something non-trivial with an older graphics API like OpenGL.

Khronos has a tutorial that walks you through getting a triangle on the screen, to rendering a glTF model, all the way up to how you go about making a simple engine.

But I'm not sure what you mean by "understand". If you want to understand the graphics theory, Vulkan tutorials aren't going to teach you that.

It does not cover all the fundamentals. It hardly explains the necessary math.

The textbooks Real Time Rendering and Physically Based Rendering are far more deserving of such claims.

Again, expecting people not to show emotions over things they care about is a you problem.

How you could you possibly quantify this? It's so vague to mean anything, and worse, this sort of rhetoric is the moral licensing that gets poorly thought out policies passed through congress.

>I loath surveillance capitalism, but systemically I'm unsure what the answer is.

The answer should never be to make privacy impossible, because the government will take advantage of that.

>I am sick and tired of anti-AI dogma.

"Anti-AI dogma" does not exist on HN. I see more posts in favor of using AI then against them, and most people on HN I would bet are pro-AI. If you want to see a stark contrast, go read a r/ExperiencedDevs post related to AI.

>I want a healthy, happy community sharing about the new tools and models. Not constantly dumping and complaining

Why are you surprised people dislike ongoing upheaval of their career field(s) and/or the constant FUD coming from the companies driving that change? Genuinely, are you incapable of reasoning about why this would be unpopular? Or you just being dense?

I assume it's the latter.

Also, be the fucking change you want to see in the world. If you want a space free from people sharing their thoughts, go vibe code your own website where you censor anyone who would dare question whether technological progress could have side effects.

Hell, if you do so, maybe you'll take some of the other self-victimizing AI users with you.

>If the chances of catching are near 100% you only need a smaller deterrent

I would rather live in a world with marginally higher petty crime rates with zero surveillance, than a world that has no petty crime but where there are Flock cameras on every corner and drones patrolling overhead at all times.

Peter Thiel and his ilk are creating Big Brother.

Here's one study from last year (1000 students) [1]. They showed that improved outcomes with AI are short term, and likely a result of AI doing the work for the student. Their methodology involved a test without the use of AI at a later date, and one of the groups who used AI tested much worse than the control group who did not use AI during learning.

Moreover, a tertiary group that used a specially trained AI for tutoring showed no improvement in testing outcomes over the control group.

[1] Bastani, H., Bastani, O., Sungu, A., Ge, H., Kabakçı, Ö., & Mariman, R. (2025). "Generative AI Without Guardrails Can Harm Learning: Evidence from High School Mathematics." PNAS, 122. PNAS

In the context of educating 5 year olds, I would firmly argue that the solution involves exactly zero use of LLMs.

All learning is good, yes. But a baseline curriculum is necessary to create a ground floor of knowledge for society.

What are the *social* ramifications of an education system where children learn increasingly from AI tutors, while staring at a screen in a classroom for multiple hours a day?

Children need to spend time interacting with other children, as well as with adults. We have a mountain worth of data that children have become addicted to their devices, why are we doubling down on this by including MORE screen time at such an early age?

>If implemented right

This same argument could be applied to any technology, or policy that has ever been created. But we don't live in a world where people can do things the right way because of any number of externalities that muddies the actual implementation.

What fucking society are we trying to cultivate?

If most people by your account are subpar programmers before AI, why do you believe they'll suddenly be better with AI?

Also, these comments always come off more than a bit anti-social. It's like hating your coworkers correlates strongly with AI-adoption.

But Earlier ...

>Or reading Hacker News.

Reading Hacker News is important to you?