Cisco gives a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to try refactoring 98% of its legacy code in 24 months

Fortune reports that president Jeetu Patel picked Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, who joined after Cisco acquired his startup EzDubs, and gave him a four-week proof period; Krishnamurthy proposed doing the work with a two-person team, and Cisco has not published results.