Cisco just handed a 27 year old unlimited AI tokens and the keys to 98% of its codebase. Somewhere, a senior engineer is quietly updating their resume. Rewriting code is easy. Discovering why that horrifying 1998 workaround exists is the actual final boss.

Don’t worry, guys. I am sure he adds “make no mistakes” to every prompt. No review necessary, push straight to prod.

So they’re replacing battle-tested unmaintainable old code written by humans with bad unreleased unmaintainable new code written by ai.

Both are unmaintainable. What’s the punch line?? Is this not the onion?

“Claude, rewrite all of these repos but better”

Done, and done!

This should be entertaining

Legacy code is still around for a reason. It’s not usually just a matter of refactoring it, but the business logic tied around it all.

Good luck lmao. Cisco will be underwater in years if they actually commit to this.

I think the 24 months is the scariest part. If the Eng is starting now & has 24 months, that’s one can of worms.

If they’ve been rewriting over the last 2 years… AI has changed a lot for code writing in that time… 😬

Isn’t Cisco gear running a lot of the Internet backbone? This should be interesting…

time to buy cisco stock, just remember to dump in about 2 months when this inevitably goes to shit

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