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

Translating from one language/platform to another is something AI is very very good at, so this sounds like a good use of it, bonus points if they create a comprehensive test suite first. Yes it will lead to new bugs, but the older code probably contains a ton of bugs already and is probably difficult to update…

I agree with the sentiments that it important to understand the code during major refactoring projects. But what if while the code was being refactored the AI was asked in addition to keep a ledger of the changes it made and why. That ledger could be the basis of providing understanding to a code base that most…

"Where there's no sense, there's no feeling". The words, I am told, of my father's maternal grandmother. It is strange to feel such an intense kinship and to inhabit so closely the mind space of a woman who I have never met. Perhaps I'm merely feeling my age. But while I suspect Cisco will eventually be disappointed,…