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Walden Yan

4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 31, 2025 by John Yang · said 5 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 31, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Yang: Walden Yan emailed benchmark results two weeks before Devin launched
“I got an email about, like, two weeks ago. I think it was from, I think it was from Walden. It was like, hey, you know, we have a good number on it.”
John Yang Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 0:51 [State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang
May 28, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Yan: Cognition built Devin to separate brain control from machine execution
“I think a lot of that, what you mentioned is why we actually from the start built Devon to what we called separate the brain from the machine.”
Walden Yan May 28, 2026 ▶ 13:39 Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
May 28, 2026
Insight
Yan: Local agents should defer decisions; cloud agents must test autonomously
“So the funny thing here is that the behavior between local agents and cloud agents, I think that is actually a bit different in their ideal state. I think local agents, you want them to be a bit more fast and let the user make the call on things. Actually don'…”
Walden Yan May 28, 2026 ▶ 1:01:16 Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
May 28, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yan: Agent spending per engineer can reach $50,000
“I've seen numbers go that high for sure.”
Walden Yan May 28, 2026 ▶ 1:06:43 Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
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