Cisco president gives young engineer 'unlimited tokens' to rewrite 98% of legacy code
Jeetu Patel tasks 27-year-old ex-startup founder with 24-month AI refactor, telling him to 'go nuts'
Cisco has tasked a 27-year-old engineer with rewriting 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months using AI, while president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel says he hopes to find more young hires in the Krishnamurthy mould, both inside the company and externally.