Cisco gives a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of legacy code within two years (report)
Verified (fact)
AI Times, citing Fortune, reported that Cisco President and CPO Jeetu Patel gave 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy unlimited AI tokens and tasked him with a sweeping rewrite of the company's legacy code. The goal is for a two-person team to rewrite 98% of the existing code within two years.
Why it matters (interpretation)
A large-company case in which token budgets are effectively allocated in place of headcount, showing that the scale and staffing of code modernization projects are changing.
Confidence medium · official source pending
Sources
- Press 시스코, 27세 엔지니어에게 AI 토큰 무제한 제공…2년 내 기존 코드 98% 재작성 AI Times (Korea)
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