1. What you'll lose3/5

   A career path, declared unnecessary.

2. Condescension2/5

   'Everybody in the world is now a programmer.'

3. Tone-deafness3/5

   Said to governments planning their schools.

4. Doom0/5

   None.

5. Hypocrisy0/5

   None.

Full time8 pitchforksof a possible 25

The occasion

World Governments Summit, Dubai (fireside chat), 12 February 2024.

Context

Onstage at the World Governments Summit, Huang said that for 10 to 15 years almost everyone on such a stage had insisted young people learn computer science, and that 'it's almost exactly the opposite': the aim is that nobody has to program. Headlines turned this into 'kids shouldn't learn to code'; he went on to say people should upskill and put time into domain expertise such as biology, farming and manufacturing. Nvidia's own recap of the event (dated 2024-02-12) words the line slightly differently ('computing technologies that nobody has to program ... that is the miracle'); the quote here follows the video as transcribed by Tom's Hardware.

Crowd reaction

Critical commentary

GIGAZINE (2024-02-27) reports analyst Patrick Moorhead and former Oculus CTO John Carmack publicly pushed back (AI won't end coding; problem solving is the core skill), and Vulcan Post ran an opinion piece arguing against the advice. A debate rather than an outrage.

See the reaction

• Primary source, blog
• Tom's Hardware: Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI
• TechRadar: Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding — Jensen Huang says AI will do the work, so kids don't need to learn
• Vulcan Post: Don't learn to code: Nvidia's founder Jensen Huang advises a different career path
• GIGAZINE: NVIDIA's CEO sparks a discussion by saying, ``AI will write the code, so there is no need to learn programming anymore''
• Where the exact words are printed