Cisco Gives Gen Z Employee Unlimited AI Tokens to Rewrite All of Company's Code

As Cisco president Jeetu Patel has tasked a 27-year-old to rewrite 98% of Cisco’s legacy code; he admits putting a GenZ in a room with employees with decades of experience can create friction, but …

Cisco president Jeetu Patel is backing a 27-year-old engineer.

Cisco gives Gen Z employee unlimited AI tokens to rewrite all of company's code

Cisco has given Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy unlimited AI tokens to overhaul its legacy code. The experiment reflects Jeetu Patel's push for young workers to challenge established engineering practices.

Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now the Gen Zer is rewriting 98% of its code

Meet Paddy, the 27-year-old Cisco’s president calls an “energizer bunny.” He’s been given unlimited AI tokens and told to “go nuts.”

Cisco Gives Engineer Unlimited AI Tokens To Rewrite Legacy Code

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Gen Z can't catch a break. Entry-level jobs are vanishing; some 40% of bosses say they plan to hire fewer grads because AI can do the job cheaper, and young workers are routinely slammed for showing up late and refusing to put in overtime for free. Cisco's president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel isn't buying it -- he's just handed one of the company's biggest jobs to a 27-year-old he foun…

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'

Cisco President Jeetu Patel has handed a 27-year-old ex-startup founder a huge job to rewrite 98% of Cisco's legacy code within 24 months.