Jensen Huang engineers stop coding
by Nate: Jensen Huang
NVIDIA's CEO says engineers should code 0% of the time. Zero. Jensen Huang argues engineers shouldn't be writing syntax,they should be solving problems. Code is becoming a commodity. The new elite won't be fast typists; they'll be fast thinkers.
Transcript (en)
The purpose of a software engineer is to solve known problems and to find new problems to solve. Coding is one of the tasks. And so if the purpose is not coding, if your purpose literally is coding, somebody tells you what to do, you code it. All right, maybe you're going to get replaced by the AI, but most of our software engineers, all of our software engineers, their goal is to solve problems. And it turns out we have so many problems in the company, and we have so many undiscovered problems. And so the more time they have to go explore undiscovered problems, the better off we are as a company. Nothing would give me more joy than if none of them are coding at all. They're just solving problems. You see what I'm saying? And so I think this framework of purpose versus task is really good for everybody to apply.
