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    "text": "it grew like 7X over, the last, I think it was, two months, three months, something like that. And then you see our engineering headcount growth. It’s, gone up by, 10% or something.",
    "speaker": "Walden Yan",
    "role": "Co-founder and Chief Product Officer",
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    "work": {
      "title": "The Age of Async Agents: Cognition's Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray",
      "type": "podcast",
      "date": "2026-05-28",
      "publisher": "Latent Space",
      "locator": "00:03:01",
      "url": "https://latent.space/p/cognition"
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