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Cognition opens Tokyo office, targets Japan's legacy code market with Devin

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Cognition, the creator of the AI coding assistant Devin, has opened an office in Tokyo, Japan. The company believes Japan's unique market conditions, including a shrinking engineering workforce and a significant backlog of legacy code, present a substantial opportunity for sustained growth in the coding agent sector. Early adoption by Sapporo's city government demonstrated Devin's potential to drastically reduce the time and resources required for legacy code modernization projects. AI

IMPACT This expansion could accelerate the adoption of AI coding assistants in Japan, particularly for modernizing legacy systems.

RANK_REASON Company expansion into a new geographic market for an existing AI product.

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Cognition opens Tokyo office, targets Japan's legacy code market with Devin

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    Cognition opens a Tokyo office and bets Japan's shrinking engineering workforce and legacy code backlog make it the largest sustained coding agent market outsid

    Cognition opens a Tokyo office and bets Japan's shrinking engineering workforce and legacy code backlog make it the largest sustained coding agent market outside the U.S. Sapporo's city government used Devin to cut a 200-engineering-month legacy code modernization to roughly 50, …

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