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No formal mandate reported. Cisco's product chief says the company's first product is now 100% AI-written and expects 60-70% of the portfolio to be built that way by 2027, and has urged engineers to upskill.[2][3]
Tools
- Codex[2]
Metrics tracked
- Cisco AI Defense is the company's first product written 100% with AI; about six products are expected to follow by the end of 2026, and 70% of the portfolio by 2027.[1][2]
- 85% of Cisco engineers use AI.[1]
Guardrails
- Code reviews are still done by humans, and Cisco requires 'provenance of a human' on AI-written code.[1][2]
Hiring, reviews & process changes
- Jeetu Patel said engineers spend only 30-35% of their time actually writing code, and urged employees to upskill to stay relevant.[2][3]
Reported results
Nothing verified from a public source yet. Know a source?
Metric tags: AI-authored code, Adoption rate, Code review
Editor's note: Cisco newsroom date is month-level (March 2026).
Sources
- SDxCentral: Cisco CPO predicts AI will have built majority of the vendor's products by end of 2027 · 2026-05-06 · press source
- Cisco Newsroom: AI is writing the code now, Cisco's vision for the agent era (Six Five On the Road) · 2026-03-01 · primary source
- India Today: Jeetu Patel says AI will build 70% of Cisco products by 2027 · 2026-02-24 · press source
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