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Kevin Haggard discusses the integration of AI in engineering and cybersecurity at Barracuda.

Kevin Haggard, Vice President of Engineering at Barracuda, joins The Tech Trek to talk about how AI is showing up across cybersecurity products, engineering workflows, team adoption, and software delivery culture. He shares how Barracuda is approaching AI with guardrails, why adoption varies across teams, and what happened when the company ran protected AI dev days for the engineering organization. What to take from this episode * AI adoption inside engineering teams will not be even. Some teams are already orchestrating agents from requirements to deployment, while others are still figuring out where AI fits into their day to day work. * Guardrails matter more in security sensitive environments. Barracuda uses an AI gateway and control plane so teams can experiment without leaking data or letting agents take uncontrolled actions. * Protected time changes behavior. Barracuda’s AI dev days gave teams three days with no meetings so they could work with the tools inside real projects instead of treating AI as a side experiment. * The coding bottleneck may move. AI can create more code faster, but QA, testing, release safety, problem definition, and rollback mechanisms become even…

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