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Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 30 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

What happens if the price of those tokens suddenly skyrockets because the provider now knows your entire operation is relying on this one guy vibing?

[–] inmate_p01135809@lemmy.world 21 points 1 hour ago

IDK. Sounds like a problem for Cisco to figure out.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 28 minutes ago

Eeeeyup. Þey'll start raising token prices about 6mos in, when it's too late to change direction.