{"id":1046276,"date":"2026-11-02T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046276"},"modified":"2026-11-02T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:12:09","slug":"cisco-tasks-27-year-old-with-refactoring-98-of-legacy-code-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/02\/cisco-tasks-27-year-old-with-refactoring-98-of-legacy-code-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco tasks 27-year-old with refactoring 98% of legacy code: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Cisco&#8217;s president and chief product officer, Jeetu Patel, has assigned Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, 27, to refactor 98% of the company\u2019s legacy code within 24 months, according to a Fortune report on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Patel stated that Krishnamurthy, co-founder of the real-time translation startup EzDubs acquired by Cisco in 2025, has been given &#8220;unlimited tokens&#8221; for the AI-driven code refactoring project. \u201cI\u2019ve given him unlimited tokens because he\u2019s going to refactor code,\u201d he told the publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Cisco&#8217;s president and chief product officer, Jeetu Patel, has assigned Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, 27, to refactor 98% of the company\u2019s legacy code within 24 months, according to a Fortune report on Friday. Patel stated that Krishnamurthy, co-founder of the real-time translation startup EzDubs acquired by Cisco in 2025, has been given &#8220;unlimited tokens&#8221; for the AI-driven code refactoring project. \u201cI\u2019ve given him unlimited tokens because he\u2019s going to refactor code,\u201d he told the publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046290,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046276\/revisions\/1046290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}