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A 27-Year-Old Asked for Something No Senior Engineer Would
And walked out with unlimited AI tokens
Imagine you’re 27. You joined a big company a year ago, after it bought your startup. Now you are sitting levels below the president of the company. Doing work that nobody really cares about.
One fine day, the president walks into your office to have a conversation. And all of a sudden, you get unlimited AI tokens and a task that most senior engineers wouldn’t prefer to touch.
Rewrite 98% of the company’s legacy code.
Well, trust me, this isn’t something that I have made up.
This literally happened at Cisco just a week back.
What's the story here?
And what are the most important takeaways that would benefit you?
That is exactly what this article is about.
This is day 3 of my 60 articles in 60 days.
The Backstory
Meet Paddy, a 27-year-old guy. Last year, in 2025, Cisco acquired his co-founded startup. Now he works at Cisco.
Lately, he raised his hand and came up with something that nobody on the team had said before.
