NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang: My software engineers prefer to build intelligent machines rather than write code

IT House reported on July 9 that according to a report by Business Insider today (9th), NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang mentioned in an interview that intelligent agent systems have become a new skill, and NVIDIA currently has many software engineers involved in intelligent agent development. "I would say that every one of my software engineers would rather build an agent than write Python code." Huang Renxun said that AI allows Nvidia engineers to "reduce traditional coding work." In his view, writing code is more like typing, and today's engineers are turning more to building agents, designing benchmarks and setting up safety guardrails. Engineers have to hand over boring work to intelligent agents. “This work requires imagination, creativity, and a lot of technology.” IT House learned from reports that Huang Renxun has long advocated the use of AI assistants in the workplace. He has mentioned many times that Nvidia will deploy intelligent agents on a large scale in various departments in the future to improve productivity. AI agents can split a task into multiple small steps, and then complete the specific links separately to ultimately achieve a larger goal. In the interview, Huang Renxun refuted the idea that AI will only replace employees. He believes that AI is also creating new jobs. It takes a lot of work to truly bring AI into the real world. "So, AI creates a lot of jobs. My software engineers love that, too." Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy have both talked about the potential impact of AI on white-collar jobs. In contrast, Huang has downplayed such concerns and does not believe that AI will wipe out white-collar jobs on a large scale. Huang Renxun said in a TV interview in May that many people do not realize that one of the first impacts of AI right now is to create a large number of jobs. “AI will create jobs and is America’s best chance at reindustrialization.”