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Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite company's legacy code

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Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cisco-gives-27-year-old-engineer-unlimited-ai-tokens-to-rewrite-98-percent-of-the-companys-legacy-code-in-24-months-president-plucks-former-startup-founder-telling-him-to-go-nuts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319223 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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