to use AI to rewrite decades old legacy code into modern AI languagehttps://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/Gen Z can't catch a break. Entry-level jobs are vanishing; 33% of bosses say they plan to hire fewer grads because AI can do the job cheaper, and young workers are routinely slammed for showing up late and refusing to put in overtime for free. Cisco's president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel (Indian) isn't buying it -- he's just handed one of the company's biggest jobs to a 27-year-old he found hidden in basement. "I've given him unlimited tokens because he's going to refactor code," Patel told Fortune at a small roundtable dinner. "So I'm like, you can go, you can go nuts."The "him" is Padmanabhan Krishnamurphy (Indian), or "Paddy," as Patel affectionately calls him. He is still not Irish though.He joined Cisco in 2025, not so long ago. Krishnamurphy reckoned he could rewrite Cisco's legacy code with a two-person team. Patel says even the most AI-forward people on his own team weren't thinking that way. So he has given himself four weeks to prove it, with the final goal of rewriting 98% of Cisco's legacy code within 24 months. Now, he's on the hunt for more Paddys: young hires who will "challenge the system and the status quo," or, as he puts it, be "an energizer bunny that just goes out and kind of revs everyone up."
>>545244911Indians are truly the backbone of tech
>>545244911Yeah, humans are apparently obsolete.
>>545244911>Jeetu Patel
>>545244911Rest in Piss, Cisco. I really want to see every corporation crash & burn. This slow enshittification can drag on forever, we need some real disasters. Only then the (((shareholders))) may finally get cured from their greed, which is by far the worst mental illness of them all.
>>545244911>Shit eating poo>ManNo, this is a scam to steal everything Cisco is involved in. Great jugaad for izzat.
>>545244911>Jeetu Patel (Indian)Was the clarification really necessary?
>>545245117>indians destroying zog corporationsHeh, maybe they are good for something.
>>545244911As an old-ass dev: lmao.AI is an awfully nice tool for sniping bits of code.But the second you entrust it something large you get new regressions every hours.Giving that to someone new is doubling down on the issue, because if some behaviour changed he might not spot it AND won't know where/what the fuck he need to tell the AI to fix.Unless the kid is a smart little shit and just tell the AI "take this code, rewrite each line with the exact same behaviour but slightly different formatting" to fool his boss, this will be a disaster.>unlimited tokenI've seen the result of that in a few companies.The bill will be Ganges-sized.
>>545244911>Krishnamurthy reckoned he could rewrite Cisco’s legacy code with a two-person team.>final goal of refactoring 98% of Cisco’s legacy code within 24 months.lol
How can I, in Eurocuckistan, enter a short position on Cisco shares?Never mind, I'll ask Claude on Monday.
Why do they take things that were good and make them not soWhat is their big planThey’re going to get hepatitis if their filet mignon is made by poop covered hands
AI bubble is about to burst if execs are already coming out with this nonsense.
>>545244911So this is how it ends. The internet collapses because jeets use AI to rewrite all the infrastructure and introduce thousands of vulnerabilities that nobody knows how to fix.
>>545244911if you're looking for a "job" in the age of ai you are completely fucking retardedyou don't need a boss daddy anymore you idiotsjust create the business yourself the bar has never been lower
>>545244911Cisco used to have networking guys programming the whole stack. They knew how everything needed to behave. They started getting software engineers to do it, and now everything they produce is absolute trash.
>>545245936Kek, the other way around.What will happen after corporate codebases get transcoded and people who actually know the details will get downsized?Do you think they will backtrack and do a next netscape mozilla rewrite, or will they cling to AI for as long as they could, because there's no way back without time and people and the only way forward is to pay for subscriptions?
Tragic really. The working class will simply get more MSM articles about the irresponsibility of eating in a restaurant when you can back butter sandwiches
You know, up until maybe ten, fifteen years ago I always thought the end would come by climate disasters making life so untenable that we would essentially kill ourselves over the last few traces of farmable landmasses until we all starve to death by famineLittle did we know that the precursor, the inbetween, was a complete catastrophic technological collapse by braindead thirdies making AI functionally retarded to the point that it killed the world out of sheer incompetence
>>545246022And your business is?>inb4 AI slop youtube channel raking in $350 a month
>>545244911> Jeetu PatelThat can’t be real.
>>545246142>braindead thirdiesWho put them in charge, huh? Maybe BRAINDEAD BOOMERS? Or their BRAINDEAD GEN X NEPOBABIES?
>>545246142>>545246498i.e. we can laugh at webm, but ...
>>545246524... the cause of it is picrel. And the cause of picrel are greedy WHITE BOOMERS who sold their souls for fake money. Boomers were and still are in charge, they put DEI in place.
>>545244911I work for a big old company with a legacy code base. The legacy WhiteMan code was developed to run highly efficiently on slower processors with much less memory. It’s 100x faster than anything else on the market. But our incompetent jeet dev teams don’t know how it works, since it’s not mediocre Java written by halfwits. None of them know C or Assembly. One of the managers told me that they’re trying to use AI coding models to attempt to ‘modernize’ the code. It’s pointless. AI can only mimic, not originate.
>>545246598>Boomers were and still are in charge, they put DEI in place."Affirmative action" began in 1973.
>>545246022>businessThere is no business you can quickly setup with AI that will get you more money than a real job in a first world country. Unless you get very lucky.
>>545245559> As an old-ass dev: lmao.Truth. No way can AI refactor old WhiteMan code. It doesn’t understand code, it just mimics.
>>545246693Depends. If you are ready to scam simps, you can get pretty far with AI-generated instagram/snapchat/onlyfans. 90% of white men under 6 feet are single, they have piles of cash and nothing to spend it on. They are ready to pay $500 for 1 min video and a short conversation.
>>545245913> Why do they take things that were good and make them not soThey get izzat for breaking things while getting paid. Indian culture is incompatible with Western civilization.> Doing your job may be seen as effeminate by those above you. If you can shirk your responsibilities, you’re considered macho. In that culture, there is rarely any pride or honor in doing what is right. If you call a plumber for repairs, he will see it as beneath him to leave without creating a mess. He may deliberately do a shoddy job, even if doing it well wouldn’t take more time. A complex web of arrogance, egotism, servility, casteism, tribalism, and magical thinking drives this behavior. He shows his contempt for you and gets the better of you by leaving a mess. His customer, as the other side of the same coin, might well look down on and exploit someone who did his job well.>People who showed respect appeared to have meekly accepted a lower, subservient position. Kind people had to hide their compassion, for being nice was seen as a weakness.https://www.amren.com/features/2024/12/india-its-worse-than-you-think/https://www.dailyo.in/variety/scams-nirav-modi-rotomac-fodder-scam-pnb-22537Also remember to refer to a pajeet as 'dalit' (untouchable/garbage) or malaun (cursed)
>jeetu patel
>>545245065gay
>>545246184digital operations consultant for a bunch of trad sme engineering/manufacturing firms. the kind of people who can weld a submarine propeller but will literally snap a photo of their monitor with their phone instead of taking a screenshot.>>545246693not true at all. you just have to understand how to present to boomers and take their money.
>dude just start a businesssays the fucking nigger in thailand. lets see your big business plan , broke little nigger.
yeah you know how fucking cheap it is in thailand?>nooooo but i need to live next to the barcade surrounded by basketball americans!!!!you can just do things faggot
>>545248153if i was thai i would be rich as fuck, so many retarded farangs obsessed with thailand and so much arbitrage opportunity if youre a localt. farang
>>545244911>Jeetu Patellost
