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Asia In Brief Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani has said the advent of AI means organizations no longer have any excuse to retain their legacy systems.

Speaking at Infosys AI Day last week, Nilekani said AI is changing the very nature of work, and used software development as his example.

“Talent will have to deal with a world where writing code will not be the goal. It will be actually making AI work – orchestration and those kinds of things,” he said.

But the chair said making AI work means getting rid of legacy systems.

“Many large companies are spending 60 to 80 percent of their IT spend on maintaining systems,” Nilekani said. “If you really want a firm to take advantage of AI, you have to fundamentally clean this up.”

“But the good news is, for the first time, because of AI, we have the tools now to do modernization … very ...