The trick: Announced Not Shipped
Fortune's headline has a 27-year-old refactoring 98% of Cisco's legacy code with unlimited AI tokens.
In the article, 98% is a 24-month goal with four weeks to prove it.
Fortune's headline says Cisco is letting a 27-year-old refactor 98% of its legacy code with unlimited AI tokens.
Before you read on. Your call?
TRUE, BUT
4 weeks
Fortune's own text calls 98% the final goal within 24 months, with four weeks to prove it first.
The twist
The record gives no count of lines or services, so 98% has no stated denominator.
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The trick has a name
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Receipts
- Supports fortune.com:
Cisco is letting a 27-year-old refactor 98% of its legacy code with unlimited AI tokens
- Context fortune.com:
Cisco’s president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel
- Context fortune.com:
Patel told Fortune at a small roundtable dinner
- Supports fortune.com:
I’ve given him unlimited tokens because he’s going to refactor code
- Context fortune.com:
Krishnamurthy reckoned he could rewrite Cisco’s legacy code with a two-person team.
- Refutes fortune.com:
So he has given himself four weeks to prove it, with the final goal of refactoring 98% of Cisco’s legacy code within 24 months.
- Supports tomshardware.com:
he's now been tasked with rewriting 98% of Cisco's legacy code within 24 months, with four weeks as a proof of concept
- Refutes explainx.ai:
No baseline is given for how many lines or services count as legacy, so the percentage has no stated denominator.
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