Cisco Gives One Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens to Rewrite Old Code
Cisco, the networking giant, has given one of its engineers, a 27-year-old, unlimited access to AI tokens. His goal is to rewrite 98% of the company's old legacy code within 24 months. The company's president reportedly backed the idea and encouraged him to push hard on it.
Quick glossaryCisco, legacy code, AI tokens
- Cisco
- Cisco is a large American company best known for making the networking equipment that connects computers and internet systems.
- legacy code
- Software written many years ago that a company still depends on, often hard to change, and usually built with older methods.
- AI tokens
- Small chunks of text that an AI model reads and writes, which are often used to measure how much AI work is done and billed.
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