NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said AI has reduced engineers' time spent typing code; they are now focused on building intelligent agents, developing benchmarks and putting safety guardrails in place. He said his software engineers "would rather build agent

2026-07-09

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said AI has reduced engineers' time spent typing code; they are now focused on building intelligent agents, developing benchmarks and putting safety guardrails in place. He said his software engineers "would rather build agents than write Python code," and that agents should handle tedious tasks, a shift that requires imagination, creativity and substantial technical support. Huang rejected the idea that AI merely replaces workers, saying bringing AI into the world requires an enormous amount of work, which in turn creates many new jobs and roles.