"Fortune reports that at an all-hands meeting last week, which took place right after the company reported its " blowout" third quarter results, Huang torched his managers who are still telling their teams to hold back on AI usage - an idea that, to him, should call your psychological wellbeing into question. "My understanding is Nvidia has some managers who are telling their people to use less AI," Huang said. "Are you insane?""
"It's a hard line for Huang to be taking, considering that there's still no consensus on whether AI tools, especially in coding tasks, actually make workers more productive. In fact, a certain body of evidence points to the contrary: one study found that programmers who used coding assistants like Anthropic's Claude used less than half of the AI's suggestions, rendering them 19 percent slower compared to their colleagues who didn't harness AI's awesome powers of automation."
Company leadership at a major chipmaker publicly rebuked managers who told teams to limit AI usage during an all-hands meeting held after a strong quarterly report. Leadership demanded that every task that can be automated with artificial intelligence should be automated and assured employees they would still have work. Evidence on AI's productivity benefits remains mixed; one study found programmers using coding assistants accepted less than half of suggestions and were 19 percent slower than peers. Other tech companies report that roughly a quarter of their code is AI-generated and have directed programmers to use internal models, declaring AI use mandatory.
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