Kyndryl survey: only 10% of IT chiefs use agentic AI for legacy modernization
AI summary
A Kyndryl survey of 2,000 senior IT decision-makers found that just 10% of technology chiefs apply agentic AI to modernization work, four in ten enterprises still run mainframes, and 18% say their modernization efforts delivered limited or unclear value. Andy Thurai, founder of The Field CTO and a former IBM chief strategist, said vendors pitch AI to IT leaders as a cure-all but "the economics don't hold up" — and three in ten respondents already worry AI-driven modernization will bring wildly unpredictable compute costs.
In-depth insight
It offers a grounded reality check on how little agentic AI is actually deployed in one of enterprise IT's largest budget lines.