Cisco’s Jeetu Patel has given 27-year-old engineer Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy unlimited AI tokens to test an approach to rewriting legacy code. Fortune reported a proposed two-person team, four weeks to demonstrate feasibility, and a goal of refactoring 98% within 24 months. Follow-up reporting quotes Patel describing a two-to-three-person team as a catalyst, with the core team retaining ownership of the final product and memory-safe language migrations also important. The models, costs, and completed share have not been disclosed, so the target cannot be treated as a measured productivity result.