NVIDIA's engineers would rather build AI agents than write Python, says Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang has a problem most CEOs would envy: his software engineers are so excited about AI agents that they no longer want to write regular code.

“Every single one of my software engineers would rather build an agent than write Python code,” NVIDIA’s CEO told Business Insider in an interview published Wednesday.

Huang described traditional coding as “more like typing” in the age of AI. The real work, he said, has shifted to designing agents, setting up benchmarks, and building guardrails. Engineers hand the repetitive parts to AI and focus on the work that requires imagination and creativity.

NVIDIA has been pushing agents across the company for a while. Huang has long argued that every department at NVIDIA will eventually deploy AI agents at scale to boost productivity. An agent breaks a task into smaller steps, executes each one, and works toward a larger goal — a framework that Huang believes will reshape how engineering teams operate.

He also pushed back on the idea that AI is coming for white-collar jobs. In his view, AI creates as many positions as it changes.

“Bringing AI into the real world takes a tremendous amount of work,” Huang said. “So AI creates a lot of jobs. My software engineers like that too.”

That puts Huang at odds with some of his peers. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy have both warned that AI could disrupt white-collar work in serious ways. Huang has consistently played down those concerns. During a television interview in May, he argued that many people overlook the fact that one of AI’s first effects is generating new employment.

“AI will create jobs,” he said then. “It’s America’s best chance for reindustrialization.”