As AI becomes more profitable, Jensen Huang says companies are hiring more engineers
Jensen Huang isn’t worried about AI taking your job. In fact, he thinks the opposite is happening.
Speaking at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) at Computex 2026 in Taipei—where thousands packed the venue, and 70 simultaneous viewing groups streamed across Taiwan—the CEO dismissed concerns about AI-driven unemployment as bad news.
People are talking about AI reducing jobs. End the nonsense. It causes more software engineers to be hired.
Jensen Huang
His thinking is straightforward. A software engineer who uses AI well can now generate the economic output of three engineers. That doesn’t make engineers redundant—it makes them more valuable. Companies want more of them, not less.
Huang estimates that the world’s 30 to 40 million software developers, who collectively earn about US$3 trillion annually, are now generating US$9 trillion in productivity, tripling their output.
“If this line were flat, obviously people would hire fewer software engineers,” he said. “But because the result is amazing, people want to hire more.”
AI has moved from exploration to commercialization
The broader argument behind Huang’s work claims that AI has finally become truly useful—and truly profitable.
He pointed to the rise of agent AI as a turning point. Unlike traditional chatbots that simply answer questions, agent systems can see, schedule, and perform tasks using tools like browsers, spreadsheets, and code compilers, just like a human worker would.
“Today we can say that agent AI has arrived, that useful AI has arrived.”
As AI becomes more powerful, businesses are finding more ways to use it for business. “Tokens are now profitable units of revenue,” he added, referring to the basic units of data processed by AI models. “Because it’s now profitable, AI companies want to build more.”
That, Huang argued, creates a need for more software development, not less.
Pointing to GitHub data, he noted that the work of engineers has continued to grow despite rapid advances in AI. GitHub’s Octoverse 2025 report found that developers pushed nearly a billion updates to software projects by 2025—a 25% year-over-year increase—while more than 36 million new developers joined the platform in one year.
With agent AI now entering the picture, Huang argued, that trajectory will only go down.
The effects are already reverberating throughout the economy. Nowhere is this more evident than in Taiwan, the epicenter of the AI hardware boom.
The country’s GDP is expected to grow by 9.64% in 2026—its fastest pace in 16 years—fueled largely by demand for AI chips and computer infrastructure. In the first quarter alone, GDP grew by 14.55%, the fastest quarterly growth in nearly 48 years.
Refreshing the PC
Beyond the jobs debate, Huang kept the big product announcement of a key note.
Nvidia and Microsoft have put together a new superchip—the RTX Spark—that Huang says marks the biggest PC refresh in four decades.
Designed by MediaTek, the chip includes a Blackwell GPU, a 20-core CPU, and 128GB of integrated memory in a 3-nanometer system, powerful enough to run 120 billion parameter AI models entirely on a laptop without the need for an Internet connection.
Microsoft, Dell, HP, ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI are all expected to launch devices this fall, and Huang says “100% of the world’s PC industry” has signed on.
The idea goes well beyond a fast laptop. Huang envisions a dedicated AI computer sitting in your home like a TV or games console, running personal agents around the clock—managing your calendar, booking trips, monitoring your home, and getting smarter over time.
“I would imagine that one day there is an AI supercomputer in your house, running all your agents,” he said. “And these over time are more like R2-D2 for you than the PC.”
Huang also said that the same agentic computing cloud AI technology today will eventually apply to robots, satellites, factory floors, and base stations.
“There’s no doubt that this computer renaissance is as big a story as the smartphone renaissance,” he said. “And this is the beginning of that journey.”
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