Scott Wu

12 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 28, 2026 by Scott Wu · said 15 times in 3 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Jun 28, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Scott Wu predicts AI systems will eventually work unassisted for a year
“And yeah, I think that's true, and I think we will get there.”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 23:03 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott Wu predicts humans will soon stop interacting directly with code
“We're not always, I mean, we're not gonna be interacting with code for that much longer, you know, or programs might not be the right, like level of abstraction, but I think what is always true probably is that it will be the human computer interface.”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 10:23 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026
Insight
Scott Wu compares building a company to a tree search algorithm
“It's the way even building a company, it feels the same. It's just like you're calculating the moves. You're thinking about, okay, if you do this and then this happens and then you do that and here are the different moves and you're like calculating out what c…”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 0:57 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Insight
Long-horizon AI agents execute autonomous missions rather than narrow tasks
“When you're talking about seconds, you're literally talking about just like a specific command, right? When you're talking about hours, you're talking about giving it a task and having it do the task, right? And I agree with you. Obviously bulk email is not, y…”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 25:51 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scott Wu admits AI agents did not work generally during early deployments
“Let's be real here, ok? Agents did not work generally, ok? And so, there was a lot of like, how do you make it work for you very specific?”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 43:59 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Cognition started with an unusually large founding team of nine people
“Our founding team is, it was a pretty big founding team. It was nine people. And most of us had already founded our own companies before we had done different things.”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 9:49 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
Cognition's entire team flew to Brazil to onboard its first enterprise customer
“Well, so NewBank, I mean, the first one, honestly, our entire team was the Ford deployed team. Like we all flew to Brazil.”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 43:50 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026
Disclosure
Scott Wu's childhood home displayed math trophies instead of family photos
“We didn't have like, you know, growing up, like we didn't have like pictures of our parents, like on the walls. You know, we just had old math competition trophies.”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 6:40 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Cognition aims to complete enterprise customer deployments in three months
“We're saying that these cycles typically take 12 to 18 months. We try to get deployed with folks, you know, in like three months.”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 45:12 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott Wu predicts society will forget living without AI within ten years
“But I think we'll kind of, Undergo the same period with AI where five years from now, it's going to be insane to think about all these things that we're going to have. 10 years from now, we're going to have forgotten that we ever lived without them, honestly.”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 20:28 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Jun 28, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Scott Wu predicts intent-to-execution AI development will be solved in five years
“But I honestly, I mean, I think we'll have solved most of that over the next five years or so.”
Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 ▶ 18:32 The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Sep 9, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Staniszewski: Cognition can become one of the future hyper AI companies
“Well, Scott, I think they should build independent company too. I think they have an opportunity to be one of the hyper AIs of the future or however you call the hyper clouds of the future.”
Mati Staniszewski Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 58:49 Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
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