India, Sept. 29 -- 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.

As enterprises accelerate their AI adoption, the technology challenge is shifting from simply building new AI capabilities to understanding and modernising the legacy systems underneath them.

Businesses have for a long time faced a contradiction. Ironically, their most important systems are often their oldest. Because those systems are stable and central to how the business runs, replacing them feels riskier than just keeping them.

AI is starting to chang...