Can agents keep a secret? We asked 1Password’s CTO Nancy Wang
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Can agents keep a secret? We asked 1Password’s CTO Nancy Wang

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 25, 202647 min
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What happens when your autonomous coding agents need to navigate your core infrastructure? Do you hand them the keys and hope for the best? (gulp!) This week on Dev Interrupted, 1Password CTO Nancy Wang teaches the golden path for agentic security: just-in-time secrets that grants AI "access without custody." She also shares her CTO playbook for measuring true agentic ROI beyond raw PR volume, explains why 1Password has officially replaced traditional coding interviews with agent builder tests, and confesses she’s shipping PRs again with her own fleet of agents between meetings. Like many CTOs we’ve had on the...

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Welcome back to Dev Interrupted, brought to you by Linear B. My guest today is Nancy Wang, the CTO at 1Password. And like many of her CTO peers, she's building again. In fact, her engineering team even assigns her Jira tickets now.

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We dive into how to balance this kind of productivity and why 1Password's newest developments turn even unfamiliar support reps into code builders. into code builders. But coding agents are only one part

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of the AI enablement puzzle we discuss. She explains that AI made writing code cheap and pushed the cost downstream into review, security audit, and rework.

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