Cisco President Gives Young Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens to Rewrite Legacy Code

The executive has tasked the 27-year-old former startup founder with rewriting 98% of the company's legacy code within two years using unlimited AI resources.

3 publishers · 3 articles · first seen 30 Oct 2026 · updated 8d ago

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3 publishers have covered this in 3 articles since 30 Oct 2026. Fortune published first, on 30 October at 07:00 UTC; Latest from Tom's Hardware in News followed 4h 27m later. The most recent article, from Times of India, appeared on 30 October at 12:00 UTC.

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