The number of software engineers at NVIDIA will grow, not shrink, because the purpose of a job and the tasks it uses are related but not the same, as radiology already showed.

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  AI could displace half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years, even while it accelerates economic growth.

  Huang expects NVIDIA to employ more software engineers rather than fewer, on the grounds that a job and the tasks it uses are related but not the same. Amodei expects half of entry-level white-collar work to go within five years. One company can grow while a category shrinks, so this is not a contradiction — but Huang is offering his own headcount as evidence about the category.

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