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Cisco bets on 27-year-old engineer to rewrite legacy code with AI
Original: Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'
Cisco has handed a 27-year-old engineer, a former startup founder, unlimited AI compute tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months. The company's president personally recruited him for the effort, telling him to 'go nuts'. The project is being watched as a test of how far AI coding tools can go in modernising large, decades-old enterprise codebases.
Why now: It signals how aggressively big tech firms are using AI to overhaul massive legacy systems, with a strikingly young and unconstrained mandate.
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