Ex-Shopify principal designer Eric Hu joins Cognition as principal designer
Kyrannio · x · 2026-10-06
Designer Eric Hu announced he's joining Cognition as principal designer. He left Shopify in August, spent September building evals and benchmarks elsewhere, and now joins what he calls a team on "a generational run" — another signal of AI coding companies competing for top design talent.
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