Walden Yan
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387 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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Maybe it's good to hear what industry inspired you to try to build OpenInspect.
Yeah, I was going to say one of the things that interested me a lot with Open Inspect was like, you didn't try to go make it then something you monetize.
There are a lot of, I think, these open source projects would then go immediately try to like raise... That's why I didn't open Debian.
Yeah.
And how did you think about that?
I thought that was very interesting.
I'm sure you've gotten offers.
Well, yeah, there's multiple layers to this in practice.
And actually, it's funny you mentioned the infrastructure, because when we got started building Devon as well, we had to go figure out how to make the infrastructure as well, because... You had to build this two years before everyone else, you know?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It was not very polished at the start.
When we just built it off of raw VMs from cloud providers like EC2...
The boot-up time was so slow, I think, and especially then turning off the machines, saving them, and then be able to bring them back up again when you want Devon to wake up again later.
It would just be out cold for like 10 minutes because that's just how long these systems took.
They were not built for this repeated down and up usage.
And so we actually had to go do all of that.
And as a result now, one thing we offer when we go and sell Devon to people is you don't have to worry about all the compute set of things.
We'll make it work.
We'll make it work in your cloud if you wanted to.
But aside from the product, I want to go into the agents and the tuning of the intelligence part later.
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