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98% is a 24-month goal, not a result

In the article, 98% is a 24-month goal with four weeks to prove it.

“Cisco is letting a 27-year-old refactor 98% of its legacy code with unlimited AI tokens.”

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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The evidence file for this verdict

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

The receipts

Each source, the line we quote from it, its date and which way it cuts. Free to read and to cite.

  1. 1Supports the claimfortune.com ↗

    Cisco is letting a 27-year-old refactor 98% of its legacy code with unlimited AI tokens

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  2. 2Contextfortune.com ↗

    Cisco’s president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel

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  3. 3Contextfortune.com ↗

    Patel told Fortune at a small roundtable dinner

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  4. 4Supports the claimfortune.com ↗

    I’ve given him unlimited tokens because he’s going to refactor code

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  5. 5Contextfortune.com ↗

    Krishnamurthy reckoned he could rewrite Cisco’s legacy code with a two-person team.

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  6. 6Contradicts the claimfortune.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.

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  7. 7Supports the claimtomshardware.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

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  8. 8Contradicts the claimexplainx.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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