What Walden Yan thinks about taste

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American engineer, co-founder and chief product officer of Cognition, the company behind the coding agent Devin.

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1. 22 Apr 2026, 20:46 UTC

   Our readingReal software needs systems that scale human taste, unlike demos with a simple verifiable success criterion.

   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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