Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says: Software engineers at Nvidia love how AI is changing their role, rather than writing Python code, they prefer to …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way software engineers work at the company. The chief executive of the US-based chip giant has disclosed that several of the company’s software engineers are now spending less time writing Python code and more time developing AI agents. Speaking in an interview published by Nvidia, Huang said engineers are increasingly focused on building agentic systems, benchmarks, and guardrails rather than performing routine coding tasks.“These agentic systems are new skills, and now we have a lot of software engineers building agents. If you ask me, every one of my software engineers prefers to be building agents than to be writing Python code,” Huang said.According to Huang, AI is reducing the amount of manual coding that engineers perform. Instead of writing code line by line, they are designing systems that can automate repetitive tasks while requiring creativity and technical expertise.“You’re taking all the mundane work, and you’re trying to get this agent to do it. That requires imagination, that requires creativity, a lot of technology,” he added.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI is creating new engineering roles
Huang said the shift towards AI agents is creating new kinds of work rather than simply replacing existing jobs. AI agents are designed to break complex tasks into smaller steps, with each component handling a specific function to achieve a broader objective.“The amount of work that we have to do to bring AI into the world is really quite incredible. So it’s creating a whole bunch of jobs. And, my software engineers love this,” Huang noted.The Nvidia cofounder has repeatedly said the company plans to deploy AI agents across different business functions to improve productivity. He has also argued that AI is creating new employment opportunities alongside changes in the nature of software engineering work.In a TV interview in May, Huang made a similar point about AI’s impact on employment.“This is the part that people don’t realise about AI. The first thing that AI is doing right now is creating an enormous number of jobs. AI creates jobs. AI is the United States’s best opportunity to re-industrialise ourselves,” Huang said at that time.Huang’s comments differ from concerns raised by some technology leaders about AI’s potential impact on white-collar employment. Unlike Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Huang has maintained that AI is creating new roles as companies develop and deploy the technology.
