Cisco gave a 27-year-old engineer unlimited tokens to rewrite legacy code
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Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel said the company gave 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy unlimited tokens to rewrite legacy code. Krishnamurthy co-founded the real-time translation startup EzDubs in 2023, and joined Cisco in 2025 after the company was acquired by Cisco. He promised that a two-person team could rewrite Cisco's legacy code, secured four weeks to validate it, and the ultimate goal is to refactor 98% of Cisco's legacy code within 24 months.
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思科总裁兼首席产品官 Jeetu Patel 在接受《财富》杂志采访时称，该公司给予一名 27 岁工程师无限 tokens 去重写遗留代码（legacy code）。27 岁的 Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy 在 2023 年联合创办了实时翻译初创公司 EzDubs，2025 年该公司被思科收购，他随后加入了思科。两人曾在旧金山办公室有过谈话，Krishnamurthy 许诺只需一个两人团队就能重写思科的遗留代码。他给自己争取了四周时间来证明这一想法，最终目标是在 24 个月内重构思科 98% 的遗留代码。