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session_id: "1373475"
title: "A New Age of Software Engineering"
phase: live
last_checked: 2026-11-12T13:24:21-08:00
render: 20261112-132421-c4d6ee
---

# Links: A New Age of Software Engineering

## Speaker

**Walden Yan**, Co-founder and CPO, Cognition

- Site: [walnutwaldo.github.io](https://walnutwaldo.github.io/)
- X: [@walden_yan](https://x.com/walden_yan)
- GitHub: [walnutwaldo](https://github.com/walnutwaldo)

## Company

**[Cognition](https://cognition.com/)**: "Cognition is the applied AI lab behind
Devin, the first autonomous software engineer." (from the site)

## Resources

- **Blog** · [How Cognition Uses Devin to Build Devin](https://cognition.com/blog/how-cognition-uses-devin-to-build-devin)
  (Cognition, 2026-02-27). Anyone tags @Devin in Slack and gets a PR back: the
  Slack-first workflow the talk opens with.
- **Blog** · [Verifying Agentic Development at Scale](https://cognition.com/blog/testing-development)
  (Cognition, 2026-05-29). End-to-end testing in Devin's VM: Devin saves its
  setup as a testing skill and comes back with a test video as proof.
- **Blog** · [Devin now supports Android emulators](https://cognition.com/blog/android-emulator)
  (Cognition, 2026-05-13). The Android support the iOS-to-Android parity job
  depends on.
- **Podcast** · [The Age of Async Agents](https://latent.space/p/cognition)
  (Latent Space, 2026-05-28). Walden Yan in May on 80% of Cognition's commits
  coming from Devin: an earlier point on the curve the talk puts at 40x merged PRs.

## Gaps

- No LinkedIn profile verifiably his (the roster lists none).
- The 40x chart, the "jobs not tasks" framing, the self-improvement channel and
  the agent-built inference stack have no public write-up found.
- The Android app from the parity job is not released yet.
- The recording opens as the speaker begins.
- No official recording or slides found yet. The dossier rechecks every 6 hours
  during the event.