“The hardest and most consequential work are the simulations and the evals in addition to the test pipeline. We need to test whether the rewritten software preserves the behavior customers depend on, performs under real conditions, and handles failures correctly. The agents can iterate, but passing those comprehensive evals has to be a prerequisite for deployment.”
Jeetu PatelPresident and Chief Product Officer · Executive, Cisco
Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer. Runs the Cisco organization whose experiment he describes, so an insider; the experiment's results are not yet reported.
Cisco sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
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Found in Patel's post. The four sentences match exactly, ending "prerequisite for deployment." The post continues with a sentence about reliability, which the passage does not include.
How to cite this passage
Jeetu Patel (Cisco), “Jeetu Patel's LinkedIn post about modernizing Cisco's code”, LinkedIn, 2026-11-02. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeetupatel_lot-of-discussion-on-a-fortune-article-link-activity-7523171493376090112-C67s Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cisco-hardest-most-consequential-work-simulations-evals-2026
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