Cognition Engineer to Reveal Devin Secrets at Evolve to AI 2026
Galad Samuels, the first Israeli engineer at Cognition, will reveal insights from building Devin at the Evolve to AI 2026 conference in Tel Aviv on November 4.
The artificial intelligence landscape is witnessing a profound transformation, driven largely by autonomous software engineering agents. Among the pioneers in this domain is Cognition, the company behind Devin, which has rapidly achieved a valuation of 48 billion dollars. As organizations worldwide adapt to an agentic software development life cycle, industry experts are closely examining the operational shifts required to integrate autonomous tools into daily workflows.
The Rise of Devin and Autonomous R&D
Galad Samuels, a Forward Deployed Engineer at Cognition, is set to share invaluable insights from the development of Devin at the upcoming Evolve to AI 2026 conference, scheduled for November 4 at the Smolarz Auditorium in Tel Aviv. Operating as the first Israeli engineer at Cognition, Samuels works directly with engineering leadership across major United States enterprises, guiding them through the practical implementation of AI-driven development paradigms.
Code writing is no longer the hardest part of software engineering. As AI agents handle an increasing share of execution, the bottleneck has shifted entirely to specification, testing, review, and maintenance.
Scaling Engineering Output Without Traditional Teams
Cognition utilizes its own flagship agent, Devin, to build and scale its R&D infrastructure. Between November and August, the company experienced a two-fold increase in engineering headcount, while the volume of merged pull requests surged eighteenfold. Every single pull request represents code rigorously reviewed and approved by human engineers.
During his keynote, Samuels will detail how Cognition operates efficiently without dedicated product or quality assurance teams. By leveraging Devin to aggregate context across multiple enterprise systems, the company has eliminated the necessity for local development environments, effectively redefining modern software architecture and execution speed.
