Scott Wu predicts humans will soon stop interacting directly with code
Scott Wu · The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu · Jun 28, 2026 · at 10:23
Cognition CEO Scott Wu discusses the long-term interface shift enabled by autonomous AI software engineers like Devin.
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“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.”
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