🛠️Latent Space: Cognition's Walden Yan on Background Agents
TL;DR
Latent Space's May 28 episode features Cognition CPO Walden Yan on how Devin grew from 16% to 80% of internal commits at Cognition. He coins 'context engineering' and traces in-house coding agents at Shopify, Stripe, Ramp, Paradigm, and Razorpay.
Latent Space's May 28 episode features Cognition CPO Walden Yan on how Devin grew from 16% to 80% of internal commits at Cognition. He coins 'context engineering' and traces in-house coding agents at Shopify, Stripe, Ramp, Paradigm, and Razorpay.
Key Points
Cognition's Devin now writes 80% of commits across internal repos, up from 16%
Walden Yan coins the term 'context engineering' on the episode
Co-guest Cole Murray walks through OpenInspect, his open-source agent toolkit
Discussion covers architecture, memory, testing, and multi-agent dynamics
Episode names Shopify, Stripe, Paradigm, Razorpay, and Ramp as companies building in-house background agents
Why It Matters
If Devin really writes 80% of Cognition's internal code, the autonomous coding agent camp now has a real reference customer — and every engineering org has to decide whether to build, buy, or watch.
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Why does this matter?
If Devin really writes 80% of Cognition's internal code, the autonomous coding agent camp now has a real reference customer — and every engineering org has to decide whether to build, buy, or watch.
What happened?
Latent Space's May 28 episode features Cognition CPO Walden Yan on how Devin grew from 16% to 80% of internal commits at Cognition. He coins 'context engineering' and traces in-house coding agents at Shopify, Stripe, Ramp, Paradigm, and Razorpay.
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