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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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[–] eicker@lemmy.world 195 points 2 days ago (11 children)

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.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Also, Cisco knows that now you can still do that. The AI market is largely subsided with VC money, so the current pieces are a fraction what they should be charging. Try this move after the bubble pops and you’ll need to pay millions for rewriting each application. If you want to vibe some slop code, now is the time.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Yeah, I went networking to see if I could find a job. Some asshole was the keynote speaker, and his idea was that with AI, you can now just throw the requirements at the machine and have it work out perfect. And that way, at the end of the day, the artifact that's created is no longer the code, it's the product definition. That's what you gotta guard. You can just throw the code away once you're done, it's all good.

Want to change that button's colour? Just re-create the entire fucking system, and shove it to live. Who cares how many tokens it takes?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"you are an internet router. Your job is to route internet packets. Make no mistakes. Use socat to read a stream of bytes from eth1 and forward them suitably using socat on eth0. Use best practices. Prevent all hacks and data leaks. Eth1 is the local trusted lan. Eth0 is the wider internet. Use Claude API when confused"

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Didn't someone try this like a year ago?

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