Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel stated that the company needs to treat AI agents as full-fledged "digital colleagues" with mandatory due diligence checks and extensive investments in security.

In an interview with Euronews Next at the AI ​​Summit in Amsterdam, Patel announced that Cisco has already created a product written entirely by AI. He stated that by the end of 2026, the company plans to introduce at least six solutions whose code will be 100% AI-generated.

The top executive emphasized that AI is fundamentally changing the development model. The transition to a specification-based approach will allow the engineering team to be reduced from eight to three people, supplemented by five AI agents. As a result, productivity could triple. At the same time, developers will retain a key role — they will review and audit the code generated by the algorithms.

However, despite his optimism, Cisco's CEO warned of serious risks. The company's primary concern is the safety of autonomous agents. Patel believes that systems capable of making decisions and performing tasks independently should undergo the same testing as company employees.

In the long term, he believes, the main value of artificial intelligence lies not so much in increased productivity as in the creation of fundamentally new knowledge and solutions in medicine, energy, and the fight against global challenges.