Cisco president reportedly gave engineer unlimited AI tokens to try to rewrite 98% of Cisco's legacy code

A post citing Fortune said Cisco president Jeetu Patel gave 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy unlimited AI tokens to try to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months. Krishnamurthy thought a two-person team could do it and, as of October 30, had four weeks to prove the approach. A separate post argued that some big tech companies rely on one AI specialist to take on projects and teach others, while some have no such person.