US AI startup Cognition enters Japan for Asia debut.

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    "excerpt": "US AI startup Cognition enters Japan for Asia debut.\n\nCognition has set up a Japan entity and named former Datadog president Takumi Masai as Japan president and general manager, marking its first expansion in Asia as it works directly with Japanese enterprises using AI in software development.\n\nCognition also said has raised more than US$400 million at a valuation of US$10.2 billion.\n\nFood for thought.\n\nImplications, context, and why it matters.\n\nCognition's Japan entry targets a specific engineering bottleneck.\n\n* Cognition teamed up with DeNA to support the Japan launch of Devin, with DeNA AI Link Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Japanese internet company DeNA Co., Ltd., serving as a strategic partner 1.\n* DeNA first ran Devin internally and said some teams more than doubled operational efficiency, a result tied to Japan's ongoing shortage of software engineers 1.\n* Devin works best on narrow, high-volume engineering chores that often pile up inside large companies.\n* Ramp used Devin to fix slow or flaky tests, remove outdated feature flags, and automate Apache Airflow, an open-source workflow orchestration tool, error resolution, which Cognition said cleared more than 10,000 hours of technical debt 2.\n\nThe AI engineer's real job is managing scope, not just coding.\n\n* Devin can take over tasks that would often take a junior software engineer four to eight hours, which shifts how...",
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