Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'

Networking giant initiates ambitious automated legacy code overhaul

By GPU Data Hub Desk · GPU Data Hub·Editorial standards·30 Oct 2026, 11:26·United States

Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'

Cisco has commissioned a newly recruited engineer to refactor 98 per cent of the firm's legacy codebase within a 24-month deadline. Company president Jeetu Patel has allocated unrestricted compute token capacity to support the extensive automated code-refactoring initiative.

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