“A powerful result is that anyone is able to contribute regardless of their technical expertise or role in the company, they don’t need to understand and set up Git or any command line tools to start contributing to our codebases.”
CognitionPublished by the organization itself (post), no named author
Cognition sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
How this was checked
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-11-04).
Raw curl of the live page. Verbatim match under Core Experience, apart from curly vs straight apostrophe in 'don’t'. This is Cognition's own company blog post.
How to cite this passage
Cognition, “How Cognition Uses Devin to Build Devin”, Cognition, 2026-02-27, at Core Experience. https://cognition.com/blog/how-cognition-uses-devin-to-build-devin Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cognition-anyone-able-contribute-regardless-technical-expertise-role-2026