Only 10% of IT chiefs use agentic AI for legacy modernization, Kyndryl finds

A Kyndryl survey of 2,000 senior IT decision-makers found only 10% are applying agentic AI as a modernization tool, and nearly half report being behind schedule with cost overruns.

Researchers say agentic AI shows early promise for mapping hidden dependencies, generating code, and creating documentation, while Andy Thurai, a former IBM chief strategist, warns that AI-driven infrastructure sprawl could make compute costs unpredictable.