Walden Yan
American engineer, co-founder and chief product officer of Cognition, the company behind the coding agent Devin.
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Their wordsThe world is entering “creative mode”, and teams are only limited by their ambition.
- 13 days earlier
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Our reading
SaaS such as observability, ticketing, CI and cloud are benefitting massively from AI agents.
Their wordsUsing agents 24/7, it feels so obvious why certain SaaS (observability, ticketing, CI, cloud) are benefitting massively from AI
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsPrompt engineering encourages gimmicky techniques like “you’re a senior software engineer” or “think for longer.” Context engineering is more durable
↗Multi-Agents: What's Actually Workingx.com 1st of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThese are exciting but they all share a property most real software doesn't: a simple, verifiable success criterion. Real software requires a system that scales human taste and decision-making
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Their wordsInterestingly, we found this technique to work best when the coding and review agents do not share any context beforehand.
↗Multi-Agents: What's Actually Workingx.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsWe think the unstructured-swarm approach, arbitrary networks of agents negotiating with each other, is mostly a distraction.
↗Multi-Agents: What's Actually Workingx.com 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsmulti-agent systems work best today when writes stay single-threaded and the additional agents contribute intelligence rather than actions
↗Multi-Agents: What's Actually Workingx.com 5th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsThe open problems are all communication problems.
↗Multi-Agents: What's Actually Workingx.com 6th of 6 in this piece