• one_old_coder@piefed.social
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      13 hours ago

      Yep. Legacy code is code that has been written by people who may now be dead. It is also filled with millions of fixes to work around bugs for very specific clients.

      I hope it’s a fake story because I already did that kind of task without AI and it was always a disaster. At the scale of Cisco and with AI it will be a disaster of epic proportions.

      • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 days ago

        I don’t think even unlimited tokens are going to work with “rewrite this code” when the clanker literally has no idea what it does.

        His prior experience was startup for a translation app. He’s got no idea how packet switching works. Never mind the zillions of other things Cisco does