Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia:
"every engineer is going to have a hundred agents"
he said this at nvidia GTC 2026 on the all-in podcast
then he went further
he said if a $500,000 engineer doesn't spend at least $250,000 in AI tokens by end of year, he will be "deeply alarmed"
nvidia currently employs 42,000 humans and plans to run alongside 7.5 million agents within a decade
the job description hasn't changed on paper
but what it takes to be valuable inside it has changed completely
in the past, engineers wrote code
in the future, they write ideas, architectures, and specifications, then define what good looks like
the engineers who understand that are not learning a new tool
they are learning a new way to think
no university teaches agent orchestration
no bootcamp teaches how to manage 100 parallel workflows
no CS degree teaches you how to measure your output in tokens
the most valuable skill of 2026 is knowing what to delegate, when to delegate it, and how to verify the output
π Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, casually sat down on the floor at an exhibition and started drinking beer
The head of Gigabyte and several other top tech executives quickly joined him.
Probably the most relatable moment of the entire event.