‘Devin-kun’: Japan embraces agents as legacy code and a shrinking workforce create a perfect market for an AI software engineer ^45.7%

Fortune - By Nicholas Gordon - 7/3/2026, 9:00 PM

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Japan—famously slow to adopt digital technologies common across the developed world—has become a surprisingly fast adopter of AI, as it confronts both a shrinking population and aging digital infrastructure built on legacy code. “Japan was our first or second most popular country in terms of user engagement overall,” said Russell Kaplan,... more