{
  "id": 17838880,
  "title": "2 Engineers, Unlimited Tokens and Cisco’s 98% Rewrite",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/2-engineers-unlimited-tokens-and-ciscos-98-rewrite",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-02T18:59:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PYMNTS",
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    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/2-engineers-unlimited-tokens-and-ciscos-98-rewrite/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cisco has handed a single engineer an unlimited artificial intelligence (AI) budget to replace nearly all of its legacy code within two years. Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel told Fortune that Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, a 27-year-old engineer who joined through Cisco’s 2025 acquisition of translation startup EzDubs, gave himself four weeks to prove […] The post 2 Engineers,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}