Cognition AI
also referred to as: cognition
14 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 27, 2025 by Scott Wu · said 12 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Aug 27, 2025 neutral
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Aug 27, 2025 positive
Wu: Only a small fraction of Windsurf team took Cognition buyout offer
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think for us, it's you know, and most folks have been really excited to come in and do it, and only a small fraction have taken the buyout, but I think from our perspective we just want to make sure it's an opt-in, you know, situation for e…”
Aug 27, 2025 positive
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Wu: Enterprises measure 8x to 15x productivity gains using Devin for migrations
“I think in practice what we see with folks, especially in these kind of like enterprise migrations is, is, you know, when folks measure internally, they see something like an eight to 15 X gain for a lot of these use cases with Devon because, Yeah, as you're s…”
Aug 27, 2025 neutral
Wu: Cognition evaluates AI models using an internal 'junior dev' benchmark
“From our perspective, we have a lot of benchmarks internally. You know, the biggest is one that we call junior dev, which we might need to upgrade to senior dev pretty soon, but it is basically the ability to do a variety of just random real world junior dev t…”
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Wu: General AI intelligence alone will not solve messy software engineering
“Software engineering in the real world is so messy, you know, and there's all sorts of these things that come up. And I think in practice, you know, most disciplines look like this. And I would say the same thing about law or medicine or, and so on. And so whi…”
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Wu: 21 of Cognition's initial 35 team members were former founders
“And so, yeah, a lot of our team actually are specifically former founders which is kind of a fun one, like, of our initial, kind of, 35, I think. 21 of us have founded a company before and so it's been it's been a very high density of that.”
Aug 27, 2025 neutral
Wu: Google hired Windsurf's core research team while other functions remained intact
“There was a core kind of, like, research and product engineering team that went to Google, and the, all of the other functions were entirely intact, which includes enterprise engineering, infra, deployed engineering go to market, marketing, finance operations,…”