Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'
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  • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
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    14 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.