According to Nvidia’s CEO, artificial intelligence is taking the place of developers despite an acute talent shortage.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, recently stated at the World Governments Summit in Dubai that programming is no longer a valuable skill. This mainly has to do with AI, which, in his opinion, is already so advanced that it can take on demanding programming tasks. The prediction is based on the current development of AI, but still seems to come from a vision through Nvidia glasses.

You can learn to code (with AI)

IT specialists who know a programming language are rare and therefore highly regarded by companies. It’s a skill that not enough people have today, but it’s still very important. However, according to Huang, change is coming, and AI has something to do with it. Machine learning has now become so advanced that it can relieve developers of the most complex coding tasks, he said.

Thanks to artificial intelligence, anyone can program. “The technology gap has been completely closed,” claims Huang. He predicts that AI will give employees other tasks where their work involves synthesizing a lot of information. With the help of AI, they no longer need programming experience to turn their ideas into code.

We can look at these predictions critically, knowing that they come from the CEO of Nvidia. Nvidia is currently experiencing a surge in its stock market value due to the AI ​​hype, for which the company builds and supplies the vast majority of the hardware. Nvidia is fine with tasks being done by AI, as AI is de facto a combination of an algorithm and hardware, most of which comes from Nvidia. According to Huang, in the future we will no longer have to pay programmers as long as someone pays Nvidia for AI hardware instead.

Lack of developers

Industry analyst Patrick Moorhead questions these predictions at The Register, pointing to the lack of developers. According to Moorhead, AI “puts programming in the hands of more people,” not all of whom can necessarily be called developers. According to him, in the last 30 years there have been several statements claiming that they will kill programming, which to this day and with AI is still not the case.

In his opinion, there is still a shortage of qualified developers. He emphasizes that your diploma is certainly not useless as a developer. Nobody denies that AI can help developers and make more people programmers. The fact is that AI today writes code based on what it has learned from code previously written by humans. So one shouldn’t expect wild innovation right away from a system that essentially reproduces and resynthesizes.