Cognition AI
also referred to as: cognition
27 statements across 6 episodes · 24 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 14, 2025 by Joe Lonsdale · said 51 times in 9 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Joe Lonsdale (34), Scott Wu (4), Jack Moskovich (4), Russell Kaplan (3), Alex Kolicich (2), Aaron Levie (1)
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2026 41 mentions in 7 episodes 6 per episode
- How AI Agents Are Creating 12X Productivity Gains · Joe Lonsdale
- Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
- Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale
- How AI Agents Are Transforming This $140 Billion Industry · Joe Lonsdale
- How to Turn $15K Into $1M in 2026 · Joe Lonsdale
- Why AI Creators Keep Panicking (They're Wrong)
- How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
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Mar 14, 2025 bullish
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Wu: Students should still study computer science despite AI coding advances
“People ask me all the time, you know, it's my son or daughter is, 16, you know, should they even be studying computer science? And I always say, yeah, absolutely. And I think the reason is because these are, you know, the concept level things that actually all…”
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Wu: Lowering barrier to coding will drastically increase total software built
“And I think we're going to see something similar here where it's, you know, imagine, imagine the w w w what we will do, you know, when we get to the point where everyone can just build products and websites and apps and whatever it is of that level of quality …”
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Wu: Within five years, software engineering will just be describing what to build
“And I think that's kind of what we're going to get to over the next, I'll call it like five or so years is a point where Software engineering. We might even still call it software engineering or programming or whatever, but it's, it really is just you telling …”
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Wu: AI coding agents need full environment access, not just text interfaces
“We had the view that instead of pure text interfaces, there was going to be A lot more full interaction where, you know, AI systems could not just read texts and answer questions, but actually just go and interact with the real world and encode. Obviously that…”
Feb 17, 2026 bullish
Feb 27, 2026 bullish
Lonsdale: Cognition will succeed due to its elite Olympiad-level engineering team
“I think I'm pretty bullish on cognition because I think Scott and like these like, 20 other like gold medal, like Olympiad winners, like probably could do something that's very, very valuable despite everyone going after it. But if you don't have 20 other Glob…”
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Wu: Cognition lets engineering candidates use unlimited AI during interviews
“For us, and this has always been the case for us, you know, our interview process has always been, you can use as much AI as you want to use. You know, it's just like, we're going to give you a few hours, just build, build your whole own product surface, right…”
Mar 27, 2026
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
Wu: AI agents enable software engineers to focus 10x more on architecture
“10% of that job is basically this really fun part of just pure problem solving, thinking about what you want to build, being creative, like understanding the different solutions, deciding, okay, what architecture makes sense here? How exactly am I going to, yo…”
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Kaplan: Cognition has dozens of FedRAMP deployments across military and primes
“Right now we have dozens of kind of fed ramped deployments of cognition both with agencies and with primes. You know, we work with US Army, US Navy, the Treasury we work with folks like Palantir, with Andrel and other primes”
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Kaplan: Cognition measured 6x to 12x productivity gains with Devin in 2024
“And, you know, relatively quickly by like late 20, 24, we were measuring You know, somewhere between a six to 12 x productivity gain for those types of projects. Meaning that, you know, one hour of human time spent managing Devin was worth like six to 12 hours…”
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
Kaplan: Software will enter hyper-deflation and output will jump 1000x
“We're going to enter this like hyper deflationary cycle of software where it's so easy to build. It's so abundant. That doesn't mean that people are going to, you know, stop producing software. They're actually going to produce thousands of times more software…”
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
Mar 27, 2026
Wu: Cognition acquired Windsurf and shares engineers across both products
“We bought Windsurf, you know, seven, eight months ago at this point, but like, we don't have a distinction of like, oh, this person's an engineer working on Devon or this person's engineer working on Windsurf. Like a lot of the same people should be people who…”
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Mar 27, 2026
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
Wu: Cognition's early 2026 Devin usage surpassed all of 2025
“Today's March ninth, and we actually, at this point, have already done more Devon sessions in our customers in 2026 than we had in 2025. And so basically over the last like two months and change, we've already done more Devon usage in total than we had in all …”
Jul 9, 2026 positive
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Scott Wu: Agent-forward engineers see 5x to 10x productivity gains
“I think right now, you know, you have this core group of, we'll call it like agent forward engineers, right? Or agent forward companies that understand how to use this and they are seeing these, you know, five X, 10 X productivity games as a result.”