2 'grossly underestimated' skills that will be valuable in the next era of engineering, according to Cisco's CPO

Cisco President and CPO Jeetu Patel told Business Insider that the company is "unapologetically hiring" engineers.

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• Cisco has about 27,000 engineers and is "unapologetically hiring" more, CPO Jeetu Patel told BI.
• He said that AI automation tools, like OpenAI's Codex, are reshaping the role of engineers.
• Having a strong skillset in agent workflow and idea quality is "grossly underestimated," Patel said.

It's no secret that the role of engineers is changing — and in some cases, shrinking.