Walden Yan
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first heard May 2026
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Although I think there are many people who use the terms in various ways beforehand, but I did find that people, both internally and externally, enjoyed the upgrade from front engineering or model wrapping into maybe a more thoughtful way to build agents.
Yeah, yeah.
In retrospect, we always thought it was ramping up, but then even now, over the last three, four months from today, it's been ramping up even faster.
So it's almost funny to be talking about how big of a leap Sonnet 3.7 was.
And honestly, a lot of it was stripping out parts of Devon that were no longer needed with that jump in intelligence.
But I also just think that...
A lot of the recent leaps, especially, you know, you look at like models like Opus and latest GPT models, they are reaching levels of autonomy where people are actually finding that they actually can't just be hands-off.
And people who were once debating, oh, you know, do I need to be in the weeds of my model in the IDE?
Can I just completely move it off into the cloud?
That's a more serious conversation.
And we've seen that in all of our growth charts.
Internally, there's this funny graph where our usage has, of PRs, our merged PRs, has grown 7x since, I forget what it was like.
It grew like 7x over like the last, I think it was like two months, three months, something like that.
And then you see our engineering headcount growth.
It's like gone up by like 10% or something.
Yeah.
It's a big shift right now.
It makes sense that a lot of people are now thinking about buying Devon, but also maybe trying to build their own.
I have a lot of fun building Devon, so I can see why other people would want to build their own cloud agents as well.
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