Cognition AI
also referred to as: cognition
24 statements across 1 episodes · 15 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 4, 2025 by Scott Wu · said 6 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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May 4, 2025 bullish
Cognition: Devin merges several hundred PRs monthly into company codebase
“Devon merges like several hundred pull requests into production in the Devon code bases every month, you know, which is, I mean, our whole team is only like 15 engineers, and so it's a pretty sizable fraction of all the code that we write.”
May 4, 2025 bullish
May 4, 2025 neutral
Cognition's Devin was named after internal prototypes Dev Walden and Dev Steven
“Walden made a virtual, you know, developer version of him, which was called Dev Walden, and then Steven made one of him, which is called Dev Steven, and, you know, we had all this, and then we were kind of combining it all into one thing, and we're like, okay,…”
May 4, 2025 neutral
May 4, 2025 bullish
Devin automatically builds internal wiki representations of indexed codebases for human developers
“Devon sets up its whole wiki with all of its internal understanding. And so when Devon indexes the code base, obviously building a representation of the code base and learning it and improving it over time is one of the big things that Devon does. And funnily …”
May 4, 2025 neutral
Scott Wu: No hard barriers prevent competitors entering across AI layers
“At a high level, you know, a lot of different folks had different layers of the AI spectrum, you know the foundation labs or the application layer or so on, you know, I don't think there's any kind of like hard barrier that would prevent others from entering.”
May 4, 2025 positive
May 4, 2025 positive
Wu: Running multiple asynchronous Devin instances is the best workflow
“We found that the, you know, the best workflow really as a team building off stuff was to work with multiple Devons and to run them asynchronously and to kick them off and to only jump in basically as you needed to provide feedback or steer the plan or anythin…”
May 4, 2025 positive
May 4, 2025
Wu: Cognition flew to recruit's parents' home to negotiate full-time hire
“We flew to North Carolina went straight from the airport to his parents' house, had dinner with him and his parents. We talked a lot, you know, it's a really, really nice Gujarati family. We kind of gave them some gifts and just talked to them about it and tri…”
May 4, 2025 bullish
Wu: Devin is used by Fortune 100 companies and public banks
“So we work with companies of all stages and sizes, you know, on the smallest end, it goes to, you know, startups of just one or two people who are using Devon to build out a lot of their kind of like an initial prototype or initial product all the way up to, y…”
May 4, 2025 neutral
Wu: Generative AI challenges traditional startup advice on niche focus
“One of the, I would say the most common pieces of startup advice out there, I would say is, you know, focus on a really niche cohort, you know, do things that don't scale, you know, make, make, make one use case that's really great. And then you grow from ther…”
May 4, 2025 positive
Wu: Devin can spin up sub-Devin agents via API to parallelize work
“So, so for what it's worth, Devon can start other Devins through the API, right? And so, so we, we've seen this happen quite a bit of times where naturally if you have some big tasks that you want to do, like, you know, Devon will do this all the time. It'll, …”
May 4, 2025 neutral
May 4, 2025 positive
Wu: Detaching personal self-worth from startup outcomes increases founder success
“It is very important to be focused and driven and to really kind of maximize your potential. And then at the same time, it's also very important to not let your own personal emotion get tied up in your success or failure, you know? And I think especially with …”
May 4, 2025 positive
Wu: AI agents succeed on well-defined tasks, not open-ended problems
“I think Devon is best when it is working on tasks that are well-defined. You know, it's one way to put it is you want to be giving Devon tasks, not problems, right? And a lot of these things, you know, like what you just saw, which was kind of like a quick fro…”
May 4, 2025
Wu: Cognition hand-wrote recruit's rejection letters to competing job offers
“He was talking with a lot of great companies already. He didn't want to burn any bridges. And so we actually worked with him and basically hand wrote all of his rejection responses to each of the other companies and kind of worked with him on it to say like, y…”
May 4, 2025 neutral
May 4, 2025 positive
Wu: Base model intelligence is already sufficient for autonomous software engineering
“I think that my hot take here, which I would give is I think the, I think in terms of base intelligence, we're honestly basically already there. And I think a lot of what we see actually, and what we spend our time on is less so, obviously we don't pre-train o…”
May 4, 2025 positive
May 4, 2025
Wu: Cognition went from hackathons in November to first customers in April
“We had a hackathon in November. We had another hackathon in December. We started the company officially in January. We like got the prototypes out to initial users in February. We did a launch in March. We got our first customers in April.”
May 4, 2025 bullish
May 4, 2025 positive
Wu: AI agents decouple context from execution threads across parallel exploration
“With humans, the way I almost say it in, in, in, in technical terms, it's like, there's this coupling of a context and a thread. And what I mean by that is, is like, basically each human can only operate, you know, single-threaded on, on the work that they do,…”
May 4, 2025 positive
Wu: AI coding agents build defensibility by learning codebases over time
“As you use Devin and as your whole team uses Devin, it's the same thing with an engineer, right? If you're joining on day one versus, you know, so you've been at the company for five years, you know, you wrote half the code yourself. You, you've touched every …”