Huang believes that generative AI will transform the role of programmers into highly skilled prompt engineers. He suggests that programming will not be essential for success, but learning how to prompt AIs will be. This shift could mean that tasks traditionally done by coders, such as creating Hollywood special effects, could soon be done using prompts. This development could cause a significant disruption in traditional programming, impacting all levels of software engineering over the next few years.
Key takeaways:
- Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, predicts that AI will make traditional coding relatively unnecessary in the future, and will democratize programming, shifting the role from coder to highly skilled prompt engineer.
- Nvidia introduced the Blackwell B200 GPU and GB200 'super chip', which offer significant improvements in performance and power efficiency over previous models.
- AI-based programming, such as Open AI's Sora, can generate code in response to user prompts, delivering results that would have taken human programmers hours to produce in just seconds.
- The advancements in AI and GPU technology could lead to a major shift in traditional programming, impacting all levels of software engineering over the next few years.