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Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

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Cisco has given a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite its legacy code, resulting in an upgrade of 98% of its codebase. This demonstrates the potential for AI-assisted code rewriting to drastically modernize large legacy systems, which could significantly impact the cost and feasibility of similar efforts for other companies running LLMs and agents in production. This development enables companies to consider aggressive code modernization strategies using AI.