This is really interesting. Because if you actually think that Huang believes what he means then Nvidia stock should be worthless shortly. No really, if you think that he genuinely believes this then we're about 6 weeks away from Nvidia firing all their software engineers, hiring in a bunch of cheap idiots to talk to their magic AI, and as a result completely tank the company. If you believe what he says. What I think is that all the real running in the AI story has been done by incredibly well-qualified engineers with cumulative millennia of experience. Yes, the crypto crowd (an old nvidia favourite) are out on twitter screaming about how they can generate the mona lisa through these 10 weird hacks... but is that really the important story? Or is that a side show?
If anything I would say this trend actually makes engineers more valuable. We can do away with people who write code, and focus on where the real value is - people who can write the right code, in the right way, at the right time. Value software engineers, not coders.
Data science companies used to do this too. They'd advertise "who needs data scientists anymore?! They just don't deliver, use our automl" then you'd check thier hiring page and they'd have thirty open data science positions available. So much snake oil it's awful
If anything I would say this trend actually makes engineers more valuable. We can do away with people who write code, and focus on where the real value is - people who can write the right code, in the right way, at the right time. Value software engineers, not coders.