Tokyo Executive Forum 2026 - A Leader's Guide to AI Strategy & Implementation in the Agentic AI Era
AWS exec says AI crossed a critical capability threshold for enterprise codebases in January 2026
“we are in a world now where I'm seeing certainly most of my engineers and a lot of customers um are using models to solve problems that they haven't been able to solve before”
Dave Brown, VP of Compute and AI at AWS, marks January 2026 as the inflection point when AI models became capable enough for engineers to work on virtually any existing codebase, not just greenfield projects. AWS Transform is now offering a viable solution for COBOL and Fortran mainframe migrations that customers have attempted unsuccessfully for 20 years. Brown frames this as a collapse in the cost and time of application modernization, from years to days.