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Ankit Jain interviews Wayne Duso about AI adoption at 1Password and its impact on engineering practices.

In this episode of the HangarDX podcast, Ankit Jain, co-founder and CEO of Aviator, talks to Wayne Duso, VP of Platform and Infrastructure at 1Password, about: - How a security-first company approaches AI adoption without compromising on privacy and trust - Why the bottleneck has shifted from writing code to planning, architecture, and verification and what that means for how engineers work - How 1Password used agents to refactor a monolith in four hours after days of upfront spec work, and what that experiment revealed https://1password.com/blog/what-we-learned-using-ai-agents-to-refactor-a-monolith 00:00 Wayne Duso's Background and Role at 1Password 02:12 1Password's Engineering Structure and Focus 03:15 AI Adoption Journey at 1Password 07:53 AI Security Considerations for 1Password 09:49 Evolution of Engineering Workflows with AI 11:55 Shifting Bottlenecks in Software Development Life Cycle 13:23 Refactoring Monolith with Agents 18:08 AI as an Amplifier in Engineering Practices 19:09 Navigating the Tools: A Pragmatic Approach 22:03 Human Oversight in AI-Driven Development 25:54 Collaboration Between Humans and Agents 27:58 Managing Specifications for Evolving Systems 30:24 The…

People in this episode

Host: Ankit Jain

Guest: Wayne Duso

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• software development
• engineering workflows
• privacy
• security

Keywords

• AI
• 1Password
• engineering
• privacy
• security
• software development
• refactoring

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 1Password, Aviator

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