"According to a report by Fortune" - here's that report: https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-g...

Fortune's source was the CEO himself:

> “I’ve given him unlimited tokens because he’s going to refactor code,” Patel told Fortune at a small roundtable dinner. “So I’m like, you can go, you can go nuts.”

I think that Fortune story is better than the Tom's Hardware one. It ties the Cisco anecdote into a larger trend of some people deliberately hiring younger, less experienced developers for their AI projects - because they are more likely to be "AI native".

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what 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, I’m sure the Indian man at Cisco acquired a translation company founded by another Indian man because he’s young and AI native, not for any other reason.

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blazarquasar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not the CEO. He’s the product officer.

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rasz 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

more like AI naive

	▲	simonw 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sadly, I think the label "AI naïve" is better applied to the many experienced professionals who refuse to engage with AI systems as a matter of principle - or who tried out ChatGPT in 2024, saw it make howlingly obvious errors, and wrote off the entire category. I frequently find myself in conversations with people who are resistant to AI and turn out to have a very skewed idea of what it can and cannot do.