“so when Devin fixes his own comments, you might be scared that, oh, maybe I’ll infinite loop. But we’ve put a lot of work into making sure it doesn’t, both by making sure that the comments are high signal, but also that the agent is thoughtful about what comments it immediately goes and tries to fix, and what comments it’s like, “Wait a second, I think you’re wrong.””
Walden Yan, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Co-founder and product chief of the company that makes Devin, so he sees its internal usage data; Cognition sells AI coding agents and has reason to present them favorably.
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, 2026-11-03).
Transcript line 'Walden [00:24:37]: The, so when Devin fixes his own comments…' through '…I think you're wrong.' The passage starts at 'so when' and leaves out the leading filler 'The,'. Everything else matches exactly, apart from quote style. Speaker label is Walden.
How to cite this passage
Walden Yan (Cognition), “The Age of Async Agents: Cognition's Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray”, Latent Space, 2026-05-28, at 00:24:37. https://latent.space/p/cognition Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cognition-devin-fixes-own-comments-infinite-loop-high-signal-2026
Context. Walden Yan was describing an internal graph of Cognition's merged pull requests, which he said had grown 7X; the passage is the continuation of that answer.
Context. Yan was describing an internal experiment building real products by auto-merging AI-written code with no code review, to see how many weeks it could run before the codebase became unmanageable.
Cognition