“They are hiring more engineers”

Are you a software engineer and afraid of getting fired because of AI? Well don’t have it. At least, that is the position of a very interested party in the conversation around artificial intelligence. At this point, the name of Jensen Huang It will not be foreign to you. This is the CEO of Nvidia, a company that has gone from leading the GPU segment for playing video games for two decades to leave that market for focus on AI platforms.

We cannot say that they are doing badly, of course, and within the strategy we have a Jensen who has become one of the most important ‘evangelists’ in the segment of the artificial intelligence. Within the framework of the Computex 2026 fair held in Taipei and in which PC manufacturers show their new products, Jensen commented that it is foolish to be afraid that an AI will replace us at work.

The logic is that this AI will generate more jobsbut there is a question hanging over that argument: what kind of jobs. Because, if the optimism of all companies focused on the development and popularization of AI is one side of the coin, the other is that of lYoung people who cannot access jobs.

And that of the companies themselves firing employees to replace them with… an AI.

Jensen Huang is on a mission

At Computex, Huang feels at home. Taiwan is home to some of the world’s most important technology companies not so much for their products. There we have giants like Asus, BenQ, Foxconn or Acer (among many others known to gamers). But, above all, we have TSMC.

TSMC is the engine of the chip industry and Nvidia its current best client after overtaking Appleand Huang, furthermore, is a rockstar in Taiwan. During his time at the fair, Huang presented his new platform RTX Spark Superchip and a new chip to compete against Intel and AMD in the field of CPUs, but it has also taken advantage of the speaker to demonstrate again your opinion on the future of AI and work.

The CEO consider that AI is something positive for both GDP and everyone’s profits, but also pointed out that it is “nonsense” to think that artificial intelligence is leading to people being fired from companies in the profile of software engineers.

Huang is very vocal on this topic and has spent 2026 taking advantage of any interview, podcast or visit to universities and events to preach about the benefits of AI and the positive relationship between technology and employment. He has gone so far as to say that “AI creates jobs” and that it is the United States’ best opportunity to reindustrialize, pointing out that blaming AI for the very numerous layoffs in industries such as technology and video games is a “too lazy” practice.

Now, as in every story, there is part that is true and part that is not so true. On the one hand, Huang is very interested the narrative that AI is a job creator. As we say, it is one of the parties most interested in technology continuing to advance because we are already seeing that it is a sector that moves a lot (a lot) of money and Nvidia is one of those that is taking advantage thanks to both its products and its commercial vision.

On the other hand, the reindustrialization discourse is correct. The United States is seeking that reindustrializationthis flowering of the business fabric based on technology and, to this end, it is looking not only for part of its companies to move the industry from Asia to the US, but also to attract giants like the South Korean companies. Samsung and SK Hynix…and the coveted TSMC.

Does data kill story?

Huang’s argument makes sense. AI creates jobs. What it doesn’t say out loud is what type of job. Because engineers or those who have careers related to the development of AI Yes, it is “easy” to get into jobs related to AI, but the rest, and profiles without much experience, find it increasingly difficult.

Technology companies are getting rid of juniorswhich are replaced by AI while those jobs are taken over by developers. AND jobs are opening in record numbers of more than 67,000 offers in engineering and 7,300 in product, but the fine print is that it is almost impossible for young recent graduates to apply for one of these positions due to the high degree of specialization that companies demand.

And they are not only the requirements, but the technologies themselves who are citing AI efficiency as a driver for laying off their human workforce. Amazon with 16,000 employees and Microsoft with 15,000 are two examples. Heavyweights like Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic) point out that AI could eliminate approximately half of entry-level jobs and there are studies that link AI with almost 55,000 layoffs in the US in 2025 alone.

For Huang, all of this is “ridiculous“because it won’t be AI that will make us lose our jobs: it will be because there will be someone who uses AI better than you. Furthermore, according to himAI has created 500,000 jobs in the last two years.

And, in the background, we have two currents. On the one hand, the AI ​​optimists. On the other hand, a generation Z that is actively resisting adopting artificial intelligence in their daily lives and, especially at work.

Because, compared to those who think that AI is a positive network for humanity because it gives opportunities that favor young people, there are some young people who they can’t find work once they graduate, they are thrown into a disconcerting work scenario and they are starring in a curious soundtrack in recent weeks.

That of the boos to the AI ​​evangelists in universities.

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