Patel: Cisco targets 2x to 3x productivity boost for 25,000 engineers
Jeetu Patel · Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z · Oct 29, 2025 · at 27:56
Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco, outlines Cisco's internal adoption goals for AI-assisted engineering tools.
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“So, we've got 25,000 engineers. I'm hoping that we can get at least two or three X productivity within a very short amount of time within the next year.”
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