Cisco bets on 2-person team with unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of legacy code in 24 months
dosco · x · 2026-10-30
Per Fortune, Cisco president Jeetu Patel has granted 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months. He believes a two-person team can pull it off — and has just four weeks to prove the approach works. Commenting on the news, dosco notes: "humans writing code was a blip in time."
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