This is INSANE. Cisco’s president Jeetu Patel has given a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to try to rewrite 98% of the company’s legacy code within 24 months, Fortune reports.
Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy thinks he can do it with a two-person team. He has just four weeks to prove the approach.
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Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now he's upgrading 98% of its code | Fortune
Meet Paddy, the 27-year-old Cisco’s president calls an “energizer bunny.” He’s been given unlimited AI tokens and told to “go nuts.”
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