Nvidia’s developers are shifting their work focus from writing code to building AI agents, CEO Jensen Huang (황) said.

On July 9, Business Insider reported that Huang said in an interview released by Nvidia that its developers prefer making agents to writing Python code.

Huang called agent-based systems a new technology. He said many developers are now building agents and that Nvidia developers are coding less than before and focusing more on building agents, benchmarks and guardrails.

He compared coding to typing and said it has become important to have agents handle repetitive, monotonous work. He stressed that such work requires imagination, creativity and a lot of skills.

Huang, who co-founded Nvidia in 1993, has consistently backed the use of AI assistant tools in the workplace. He has also repeatedly referred to a future in which the company deploys agents at scale across its divisions to improve productivity. An agent is a system that breaks tasks into multiple steps to achieve a large goal.

Huang also argued that AI does not simply replace people but creates new roles. He said there is a huge amount of work to do to bring AI into the world and that many jobs are being created in the process.

He also maintained his opposition to concerns that AI will eliminate large numbers of office jobs. He said in a TV interview in May that the first thing AI is doing is creating an enormous number of jobs and that it is a good opportunity for the United States to strengthen its industrial base again.