Cisco Lets a 27-Year-Old Rewrite Legacy Code With AI
Cisco president Jeetu Patel has let a 27-year-old employee use unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98 percent of the company's legacy code. He told the young worker to go nuts, a move that touches on the debate about entry-level jobs.
Quick glossaryCisco, legacy code, AI tokens
- Cisco
- A US-based company known for networking equipment such as routers and switches that connect computers and internet traffic.
- legacy code
- Old software code that a company has relied on for years, often hard to update and understand.
- AI tokens
- Small chunks of text that an AI model reads and writes, often counted to measure how much an AI model is used.
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