Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's code

Re:Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% o... by mkjs on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:21PM (#50306154)

I'm probably not describing the scale of the issue adequately. Lots of these bugs only show up when you have a specific bit of hardware on a specific version of code, and it's connected to another specific bit of hardware running another specific version of code.

Lots of this stuff should work in theory, you only find out that it doesn't in practice when you try it on real hardware. And there are thousands of bits of hardware.

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Re:Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% o... by randysalami on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:36AM (#50317138)

Maybe with their unlimited tokens, they can devise a testing strategy around an emulator that exercises all these cases.

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