Cisco tasks two-person team with rewriting 98% of legacy code using AI
10/30/2026 — 10/30, 21:19·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- Cisco president and CPO Jeetu Patel has authorized Paddy Krishnamurthy, 27, to lead a two-person team rewriting 98% of the company's legacy…
- InfoQ notes the 98% figure remains a target. Cisco has not disclosed completion percentage, system scope, technical approach, or testing res…
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According to a report by Tom's Hardware on October 30, 2026, Cisco President Jeetu Patel has handed a 27-year-old ex-startup founder a massive engineering mandate: rewriting 98% of Cisco's legacy code within 24 months. The report states that Patel is providing the engineer with an unlimited supply of AI tokens and has encouraged him to go all out. Beyond that announcement, however, the available coverage reveals little else. There is no detail on which AI coding tools or models will be used, how the rewrite will be phased, or what progress has been made so far, and Cisco has not issued a broader public statement about the scope, risk, or structure of the effort. The task and its timeline therefore stand as described by the initial report, with subsequent developments not yet covered in the available material.
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Latest turnAccording to Fortune, Cisco chief product officer Jeetu Patel has authorized 27-year-old Paddy Krishnamurthy to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code with a two-person team over 24 months, backed by a near-unlimited AI token budget. The 98% figure is a target: Cisco has not disclosed the completed share, system scope or test results.
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According to Fortune, Cisco chief product officer Jeetu Patel has authorized 27-year-old Paddy Krishnamurthy to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code with a two-person team over 24 months, backed by a near-unlimited AI token budget. The 98% figure is a target: Cisco has not disclosed the completed share, system scope or test results.
InfoQ 中文AI score 60
According to Tom's Hardware, Cisco President Jeetu Patel has assigned a 27-year-old former startup founder the task of rewriting 98% of Cisco's legacy code in 24 months, with unlimited AI tokens. Patel reportedly told him to "go nuts." The report presents the move as an unusually aggressive bet on AI-assisted software modernization.
Tom's HardwareAI score 52
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