Jensen Huang says his software engineers love how AI is changing their role.

“These agent systems are new skills, and now we have a lot of software engineers creating agents,” the Nvidia CEO said in an interview published by the company on Wednesday. “If you ask me, every one of my software engineers would rather be construction agents than write Python code.”

Huang said that thanks to AI, Nvidia engineers are coding less, which is like writing. They are now working on creating agents, landmarks 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, creativity and a lot of technology.”

Huang, who co-founded 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 deploy agents en masse across divisions to improve productivity.

AI agents break down a task into several smaller steps, each of which addresses a specific task to achieve a larger goal.

“A lot 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 we have to do to bring AI to the world is truly incredible,” he said. “So it’s creating a lot of jobs. And my software engineers love this.”

Unlike Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Amazon boss Andy Jassy, ​​Huang has dismissed the increasingly popular concern that AI will eliminate white-collar jobs en masse.

“This is the part of AI that people don’t realize. The first thing AI is doing now is creating a huge number of jobs,” Huang said in a television interview in May. “AI creates jobs. AI is America’s best chance to reindustrialize.”