Cisco gives young engineers unlimited token budgets, aiming to rewrite 98% of legacy code with AI in 2 years

Cisco CEO Guri Prasad Patel assigns 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurti to set a goal of AI restructuring 98% of legacy code within 24 months, providing an unlimited token budget; Krishnamurti was originally the founder of EzDubs, joined Cisco in 2025, plans to form a two-person team to complete this task, but the 98% goal is a fixed plan, and current results are unknown.