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TRUE, BUT

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, reporting Cisco president Jeetu Patel's remarks at a roundtable dinner (30 October 2026). Recorded 31 October 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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8 receipts: 3 support the claim, 2 contradict it, 3 add context. 4 figures on the record, 2 traced to a quoted receipt.

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