AI and Legacy Modernisation: Why Enterprises Must Understand Old Code

In an interaction with Dataquest, Devipad Tripathy, Senior Vice President at Xebia, discusses how AI is changing enterprise legacy modernisation, the growing importance of reverse engineering, and the challenges of making decades-old technology foundations AI-ready. Key Highlights AI's biggest contribution to legacy modernisation may be understanding the old system, not writing the new one. AI coding productivity does not automatically translate into enterprise-level productivity because context