Thoughtworks Technology Podcast Inside AI/works™: An agentic development platform
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Feb 19, 2026 Shodhan Sheth, head of modernization who turns legacy systems into modern designs using AI tools, and Bharani Subramaniam, CTO focused on platform engineering and AI governance, discuss AI/works™. They explore building a repeatable AI platform, bridging code-to-spec and spec-to-code, legacy-system discoverability, guardrails and observability for enterprise AI, and agentic workflows and incremental modernization.
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Client Experience Sparked Platform Build
- A client in India exposed where AI-accelerated work stalled due to production plumbing and environment issues.
- That experience sparked the idea to build a platform to solve systemic handoff and deployment blockers.
Platform As Control Plane For Safety
- AI/works centers on an AI gateway for token control, safety guardrails and centralized observability.
- Governance, lineage and spend controls form a core part of making agentic engineering enterprise-safe.
Engineering Rigor Around Generative AI
- ThoughtWorks frames AI/works as engineering around generative AI, not a pure LLM product.
- Rigor from decades of engineering is paired with AI benefits to reduce hallucination and increase fidelity.