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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'. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

They're advertising it trying to get some other sucker to think this will actually work and pay for enough tokens to rewrite all the code at their own company, inflating the bubble more.

Better do it now, because in two years everyone is going to be doing it; you can get ahead of the curve! 🤮

this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
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