Cisco assigns 27-year-old engineer an AI overhaul of 98% of its legacy code
President Jeetu Patel gave the former startup founder unlimited AI tokens for a rewrite planned over 24 months. RuntimeWire identifies him as EzDubs co-founder Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy and reports that Patel brought him up from five organizational levels below, giving him four weeks to demonstrate the plan could work.
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Fortune 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 · Orianna Rosa Royle
Tom's Hardware Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months · Ben Stockton
RuntimeWire Cisco gives a 27-year-old EzDubs co-founder unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of its legacy code · Ryan Merket
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