AI agents will generate single-use code to automate white-collar workflows
Scott Wu · The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu · Jun 28, 2026 · at 17:11
Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, explains the future of computing abstraction and how agents will eliminate repetitive white-collar tasks.
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“I think what we're gonna get to Is we're going to get to a point where you are just giving your instructions to that agent and the agent on the back end, you know, you don't even have to look at this, but on the back end, the agent is going to figure out, okay, here's, I'm going to write this code. That's going to go do this. I'm going to put a script that automates this part. I'm going to do this and do this. and that's, what's going to allow it to actually go and do all these things.”
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