Global tech giant Thoughtworks has unveiled AI/works™, a new "agentic" platform designed to solve one of the enterprise world's most expensive headaches: legacy code.

The platform promises to modernize old computer systems in months rather than years. It achieves this by using specialized AI agents to "read" and understand millions of lines of old code (like COBOL, Fortran, or older Java versions) and automatically generate new, modern versions in cloud-native languages, complete with tests and documentation.

This "Agentic" approach represents a significant leap from previous generation tools that relied on simple transpilation. By understanding intent and context, AI/works™ aims to reproduce business logic faithfully while adhering to modern architectural standards.