{"id":737917,"date":"2026-07-09T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jensen-huang-says-his-engineers-would-rather-build-agents-than-write-code\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:50:34","slug":"jensen-huang-says-his-engineers-would-rather-build-agents-than-write-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jensen-huang-says-his-engineers-would-rather-build-agents-than-write-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Jensen Huang says his engineers would rather build agents than write code"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a5026a852b51\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a5026a852b51\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jensen-huang-says-his-engineers-would-rather-build-agents-than-write-code\/#%E2%80%98A_whole_bunch_of_jobs\" >\u2018A whole bunch of jobs\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p>Nvidia\u2019s software engineers are writing less code than ever, and according to their chief executive, that is exactly how they like it.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese agentic systems are new skills, and now we have a lot of software engineers building agents,\u201d Huang said in an interview published by the company on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you ask me, every one of my software engineers prefers to be building agents than to be writing Python code.\u201d<\/em> It is a message he has been sharpening for months, from a\u00a0Carnegie Mellon commencement\u00a0to the\u00a0Computex stage.<\/p>\n<p>The distinction he draws is between coding as a task and engineering as a craft. 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Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re taking all the mundane work, and you\u2019re trying to get this agent to do it,\u201d he said. \u201cThat requires imagination, that requires creativity, a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>.\u201d Instead of churning out lines of Python, his engineers now spend their days building agents, writing benchmarks, and designing the guardrails that keep those systems in check.<\/p>\n<p>An AI agent breaks a large goal into a sequence of smaller steps, each handled in turn, so that the software can plan and act rather than simply answer a single prompt.<\/p>\n<p>Huang, who cofounded Nvidia in 1993, has become one of the loudest advocates for putting AI assistants to work inside companies. He has repeatedly floated a future in which Nvidia deploys agents across every division to lift productivity, an ambition that sits comfortably alongside selling the\u00a0chips and platforms\u00a0that run them.<\/p>\n<p>That commercial logic is never far from the surface. Nvidia has spent the past year positioning itself as the infrastructure beneath the agent economy, and a workforce that builds agents is also a workforce that consumes ever more compute.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98A_whole_bunch_of_jobs\"><\/span>\u2018A whole bunch of jobs\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Where Huang parts company with several of his peers is on what all of this means for employment. He rejected the increasingly common warning that AI will hollow out white-collar work, arguing that the technology is generating roles rather than erasing them.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe amount of work that we have to do to bring AI into the world is really quite incredible,\u201d<\/em> he said. <em>\u201cSo it\u2019s creating a whole bunch of jobs. And, my software engineers love this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The optimism sets him apart from Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei and Amazon boss Andy Jassy, both of whom have cautioned that AI could wipe out swathes of entry-level and administrative jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Huang has consistently dismissed that framing, even as other firms report that\u00a0agent progress\u00a0is slower than the hype suggests.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is the part that people don\u2019t realize about AI. The first thing that AI is doing right now is creating an enormous number of jobs,<\/em>\u201d he said in a television interview in May.<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cAI creates jobs. AI is the United States\u2019s best opportunity to re-industrialize ourselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether that holds across the wider economy is a separate question from what is h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening inside Nvidia, where the engineers Huang describes are still very much employed. His claim is narrower and harder to argue with, that giving skilled people better tools makes much of the drudgery disappear.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the pitch lands as much with investors as with staff. A company whose own engineers reach for agents by default is a persuasive advertisement for the hardware Nvidia sells, and Huang knows it.<\/p>\n<p>The real test will be whether his enthusiasm survives contact with the messier parts of software work, where judgment, debugging, and accountability still rest with people. Building an agent, after all, is its own kind of coding.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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