Jensen Huang says his software engineers love how AI is changing their role.
“These agentic systems are new skills, and now we have a lot of software engineers building agents,” the Nvidia CEO said in an interview published by the company on Wednesday. “If you ask me, every one of my software engineers prefers to be building agents than to be writing Python code.”
Huang said that because of AI, Nvidia’s engineers are doing less coding, which is like typing. Now, they’re working on building agents, benchmarks, and guardrails.
“You’re taking all the mundane work, and you’re trying to get this agent to do it,” he said. “That requires imagination, that requires creativity, a lot of technology.”
Huang, who cofounded the chipmaker in 1993, has been a strong advocate for AI assistants in the workplace. He has repeatedly described a future in which Nvidia will mass-deploy agents across every division to improve productivity.
AI agents break down a task into multiple smaller steps, each tackling a specific task to achieve a bigger goal.
‘Whole bunch of jobs’
In the interview, Huang rejected the idea that AI simply replaces workers, arguing instead that it creates new roles.
“The amount of work that we have to do to bring AI into the world is really quite incredible,” he said. “So it’s creating a whole bunch of jobs. And, my software engineers love this.”
Unlike Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Amazon chief Andy Jassy, Huang has dismissed the increasingly popular concern that AI will mass eliminate white-collar jobs.
“This is the part that people don’t realize about AI. The first thing that AI is doing right now is creating an enormous number of jobs,” Huang said in a May TV interview. “AI creates jobs. AI is the United States’s best opportunity to re-industrialize ourselves.”
