Scott Wu
20 statements across 3 episodes · 17 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2025 by Scott Wu · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Jun 12, 2025 positive
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Wu: 'Jagged intelligence' ensures human-AI symbiosis remains necessary for foreseeable future
“One of the cool things about jagged intelligence, I'll just say, is it means that, that humans plus AI really is the way to go, at least for the foreseeable future, right? Because I think there are, certainly there are more and more things that we're seeing th…”
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
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…”
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Wu: One 20-person USACO camp produced Wang, Guo, Ziegler, and Ho
“In my year, actually there were a ton of others who all kind of went into AI. And so obviously Steven and Andrew, who started the company you know, who started Cognition with us but also a ton of others. And so Alexander Wang, who started Scale. Demi Guo, who …”
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
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 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 bullish
Wu: Technical execution matters more in AI than in past tech waves
“I think in AI, what you see is that really excelling on the technical aspect just matters much more, I think, in AI than some of these other fields, and I think there's been lots and lots of businesses in the past that have been very, I'll say, like very inten…”
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 negative
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Mar 27, 2026 bullish
Wu: AI autonomous task duration grew from 10 seconds to 18 hours
“One of the stats that people talk about a lot is this METR report, which basically says for each different model that comes out roughly how much human work can it do in an automated fashion before you have to go interrupt it and say, oh, that was wrong. Let's …”
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 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.”
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Scott Wu: AI autonomous work time doubles four to five times yearly
“And the thing that's really crazy about this stat is, you just see it very consistently double. And I think for the last few years, it's doubled about four or five times every year, you know, which is insane, which means, you know, you wait two or three months…”