Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang has dismissed concerns that artificial intelligence will reduce demand for software engineers as ‘complete nonsense,’ saying the technology is instead driving hiring by making workers more productive.
“This is the promise of AI. The number of engineers, software engineers, is actually increasing. People talk about AI reducing jobs, complete nonsense. It’s causing more software engineers to be hired,” Huang said.
He was speaking and presenting ahead of the Computex conference in Taipei, where leaders of some of the world’s largest technology companies are gathering. Huang said agentic and ‘useful’ AI had arrived, adding that “AI is now a profit generator, AI is now a GDP generator.”
The remarks extend a position Huang has held consistently across recent appearances. At the ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 conference, he rejected the idea that AI will put people out of work, saying “AI is doing nothing but create jobs.”
Speaking in early May, Huang said AI doomsayers conflate a job’s task with its purpose, in software engineering, the task is coding, but the purpose is problem-solving and innovation, and pointed to hiring-site data showing demand for software engineers was increasing. “We need a trillion lines of code written,” he said, arguing demand for code is not fixed.
At the Milken Institute Global Conference in 2025, Huang said every job would be affected immediately and described that as unquestionable. “You’re not going to lose your job to an AI, but you’re going to lose your job to someone who uses AI,” he said, and predicted AI could return 30 million to 40 million workers to the workforce. He recommended that everyone take advantage of AI rather than be the person who ignores it.
He has framed AI as transforming work rather than ending it. “I am certain 100% of everybody’s jobs will be changed,” Huang told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, adding that some jobs would be lost and many created, and that he hoped productivity gains across industries would lift society.
At Nvidia’s AI Summit in Mumbai in October 2025, Huang said AI could do parts of some jobs 1,000 times better but would not replace the humans performing them. “As we speak, AI has no possibility of doing what we do,” he said, and when asked whether AI would take his own job, he replied, “Absolutely not.”
Huang has also challenged forecasts of mass unemployment, saying AI is unlikely to cause large-scale job losses unless “the world runs out of ideas.” His comments contrast with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who has warned that AI could eliminate up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. At VivaTech in Paris in 2025, Huang dismissed that view, saying of Amodei: “He thinks AI is so scary, but only they should do it.”
Huang made the Computex remarks while outlining Nvidia’s latest AI products. He said the company’s new Vera central processing unit, designed for AI agents, would be Nvidia’s “new major growth driver,” with early adopters including OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX. During an earnings call in May, Huang said the Vera processors give Nvidia access to a new $200 billion market.
Huang, who was born in Taiwan’s southern city of Tainan, announced plans last week to invest around $150 billion a year in Taiwan, describing it as the epicentre of the AI revolution. The Computex speech at the Taipei Music Hall came about two weeks after he accompanied U.S. President Donald Trump on a visit to Beijing to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The Computex trade show runs from June 2 to 5.