Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of legacy code in 24 months
alex_verem · 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, with a two-person team and just four weeks to prove the approach.
Quoting author alexverem pushes back: regenerating code with AI isn't modernization. Agents can rewrite every file while leaving the same tangled database and hidden rules — COBOL translated line-by-line into Java is dubbed JOBOL: new syntax, same architecture.
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