GoKawiilCisco taps 27-year-old engineer to refactor 98% of legacy code with AI in 2 years
Cisco president Jeetu Patel has assigned Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, a 27-year-old engineer who joined via the EzDubs acquisition, to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy codebase within 24 months using a small two-person team. Patel says he has given Krishnamurthy unlimited AI tokens for the project, which starts with a four-week proof of concept.