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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: Software Abundance for Government With Cognition's Russell Kaplan
Description: Russell Kaplan, co-founder of Cognition — the company behind Devin — and previously at Scale AI and Tesla, joins the podcast to discuss what “software abundance” could mean for government.
Our conversation covers…
Why government software is so broken — Despite spending over $100B annually on IT, critical systems at agencies like the Social Security Administration and U.S. Department of the Treasury still run on decades-old code that few engineers know how to modify.
How two-year software projects become three-week ones — why AI agents are particularly good at the painful migration and modernization work engineers tend to avoid...