How Jensen Huang Sees the AI Era

Recently I read a book about the history of Nvidia. I wanted to understand how the company became the unquestioned leader of the AI industry.

I was surprised to discover that there is almost no accident or lucky star in this story. Behind the result are decades of titanic work, foresight in decisions, dedication, and loyalty to its own vision. At the same time, Nvidia always kept its flexibility and knew how to adapt to circumstances.

Today I listened to Jensen Huang speaking at Y Combinator. Almost all leading people in the AI industry now say that this is the best time to create a startup. Never before has there been such an abundance of opportunities for the most ambitious projects.

You no longer need to constantly think about the number of lines of code written, the number of engineers hired, and the complexity of every technical implementation. Your own ambition and determination become the main limits.

Jensen also pointed out a major misunderstanding in how AI is perceived. Society often discusses how AI will take jobs away from people. He disagrees and believes that things are happening differently.

The fields where AI took the largest number of simple tasks away from people received a strong impulse for growth. He uses software engineering as an example. Many expected developers to be affected first, but there is more development. The ambition, breadth, complexity, and variety of projects are growing.

I can fully confirm this. What is being created in my startup today could have existed only as a wild flight of imagination a few years ago. Today it is already reality.

Jensen says the same about law and other fields. AI expands capabilities, while people still use the tool. The more people arrive with imagination and ideas, the more ways appear to realize them.

Even the most autonomous system does not exist by itself. Someone has to connect different tasks, join one system with another, and set the overall architecture, goals, and long-term motivation. The human role may occupy 10% or even 1% of all the work, but this part continues to set the direction.

This podcast felt surprisingly close to me. It seemed that Jensen was speaking directly to me and putting into words things that had been on the tip of my tongue for a long time. Many of his recommendations have already become rules that I live by every day.

And more often I ask myself one question: how would Jensen see this market, and what would he do in my place?

Bravo, Jensen. His words are pure gold, but his actions surpass everything.

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