Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code

Nvidia’s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it.

Jensen Huang said this week that his engineers have grown to prefer building AI agents over writing Python, a change he casts as a promotion rather than a threat.

“These agentic systems are new skills, and now we have a lot of software engineers building agents,” Huang said in an interview published by the company on Wednesday.

“If you ask me, every one of my software engineers prefers to be building agents than to be writing Python code.” It is a message he has been sharpening for months, from a Carnegie Mellon commencement to the Computex stage.

The distinction he draws is between coding as a task and engineering as a craft. In his telling, the typing part of the job, the mundane work of turning an idea into syntax, is now something an agent can shoulder.The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!