alt Hacker NewsIsn't the whole point to learn and challenge yourself? If you just wanted to render a 3-dimensional scene there are already hundreds of open source raytracers on github.
Asking chatgpt to "guide" you through the process is a strange middle-ground between making your own project and using somebody else's in which nothing new is created and nothing new is learned.
Ridiculous. If you go through this process with ChatGPT and don't learn anything, that's all on you.
Given the lack of a CS professor looking over your shoulder, what's more powerful than a textbook that you can hold a conversation with?