Cisco gives a 27-year-old engineer its legacy code to rewrite
Cisco president Jeetu Patel gave a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to refactor 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months.
By GennnAi··1 min read
According to Fortune, Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy joined Cisco through its acquisition of translation startup EzDubs and held a role considered unstrategic. Patel met him at Cisco's San Francisco office. He said a team of just two could rewrite the code. Cisco gives him 24 months, after a four-week proof of concept. Patel told him to go nuts. Autonomous AI agents, however, remain prone to mishaps such as deleting company databases.
Source: Tom's Hardware, published on November 1, 2026.