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Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

204 points • by taubek • yesterday at 2:08 PM • 232 comments • view on HN

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spkm • today at 1:59 AM

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causal • yesterday at 3:34 PM

I suspect we are approaching a world where this makes sense to do annually. Opus 5.5 is good enough to improve on most codebases, and Opus 7 will no doubt be good enough to improve on that.

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raincom • yesterday at 3:30 PM

'98% of the company's legacy code' is very vague. How many code bases? How each code base is connected to any supported Cisco product? How many KLOC the company's legacy code?

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keyle • today at 3:43 AM

What a mess of an article. Hard to read. Chasing the jabs and the stabs for clicks.

emtel • today at 4:21 AM

A lot of the commenters here are still living in early 2026. Late 2026 AI can absolutely demolish this kind of job. It can clone photoshop! You think this is going to be harder than that?

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