“We've found it especially useful for the kind of ad-hoc questions that used to sit in someone's queue for days. Questions like "why did signups drop Tuesday?" or "break down consumption by enterprise vs self-serve" can be answered by anyone on the team just asking in Slack, with the SQL included so we can validate the logic.”
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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).
Verbatim match in the DANA section; the page's curly quotes and apostrophes normalize to the passage's straight ones. First-party Cognition text.
How to cite this passage
Cognition, “How Cognition Uses Devin to Build Devin”, Cognition, 2026-02-27, at DANA (Data Analyst Agent). https://cognition.com/blog/how-cognition-uses-devin-to-build-devin Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cognition-dana-ad-hoc-questions-sat-queue-days-2026
CognitionPublished by the organization itself (post), no named author