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Walden Yan

CognitionCo-founder and CPO

Yan co-founded Cognition, where he leads product development for Devin and related coding agents. His work focuses on tools that can plan, write, test and ship changes across real software projects.

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Cognition

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Co-founder and CPO of Cognition.

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Walden Yan

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