Wu: Language syntax will matter less than product sense in software engineering
Scott Wu · A Cheeky Pint with Cognition CEO Scott Wu · Aug 27, 2025 · at 38:38
Cognition CEO Scott Wu shares his outlook with Patrick Collison on how AI coding agents like Devin will transform the core skills required for software engineers.
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“Yeah, I think what we find is, is, and I think this, you know, we'll see this trend generally in software engineering, which is knowing all the little, memorizing all the facts or knowing all the little details or being really good at Syntax of some language or things like that are gonna be less important, and what's gonna be more important are a lot of the high-level decision makings or understanding the technical concepts really well. You know, having a good sense of products, and then just having a good intuitive sense of, like, what to build and what to do, and being, like, you know, like a self-owner that way, too.”
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