Yasser Ouda

🦔Cisco gave a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens and told him to “go nuts.” His two-person team wants to rewrite 98% of Cisco’s old code in 24 months, and he has four weeks to prove the idea works. Back in May, Cisco cut about 4,000 jobs in the same quarter it posted record revenue. My Take This is a bad idea, and I’d say so if I were in that room. Old code looks messy because of years of quick fixes the original engineers never documented, and I’d bet plenty of the people Cisco cut in May remembered why. Handing the rewrite to two people with unlimited tokens and a four-week deadline puts speed ahead of everything else. Patel says he wants tension between young hires and long-timers, with the friction kept on ideas. With that many jobs gone, I doubt many veterans feel safe pushing back on the president’s pick, and their pushback is the best check on the mistakes AI makes. Plenty of banks and hospitals run their networks on Cisco gear, so those mistakes won’t stay inside Cisco. The token bill will run into the millions, and this project will quietly shrink long before month 24. Hedgie🤗