Walden Yan

Walden Yan builds tools for an era where machines write the code. As a co-founder of Cognition, he focuses on the new reality of software development: what happens when AI generates applications faster than humans can read them.

His work tackles the messy reality of production. When agents and assistants write the software, deploying and debugging it requires a completely different stack. Walden explores how infrastructure must adapt to support code that no human fully understands.