Wu: Base model intelligence is already sufficient for autonomous software engineering
Scott Wu · Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu · May 4, 2025 · at 1:03:11
Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition (creator of Devin), discusses whether advances in Devin come from bigger foundation model releases or from application-level engineering.
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“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 our own models or things like that, you know, it's less so like increasing the base IQ of a model, for example, and more about kind of like teaching it all of the idiosyncrasies of real world engineering, right?”
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