Cognition AI
also referred to as: cognition
9 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2024 by Scott Wu · said 34 times in 17 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sarah Guo (17), Elad Gil (12), Andrew Feldman (2), Zach Lloyd (1), Ofir Ehrlich (1), Howie Liu (1)
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2026 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman
- Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
- Rethinking Legacy Data Infrastructure with Eon Co-Founders Ofir Ehrlich and Gonen Stein
- The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?
- NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative
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2025 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
- No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
- No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
- No Priors Ep. 116 | With Sarah and Elad
- No Priors Ep. 100 | With Sarah and Elad
- No Priors Ep. 97 | With Decagon CEO and Co-Founder Jesse Zhang
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2024 16 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
- No Priors Ep. 57 | With LangChain CEO and Co-Founder Harrison Chase
- No Priors Ep. 73 | With Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu
- No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep. 59 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
- No Priors Ep 56 | With Baseten CEO and Co-Founder Tuhin Srivastava
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Everything said about Cognition AI, oldest first
May 2, 2024 positive
Wu: Devin autonomously makes decisions and executes engineering tasks end-to-end
“Devin is, is fully able to make all of its own decisions in the same way that a human software engineer would. And so you know, obviously writing and editing code is a huge piece of that, but also, you know, being able to work with the command line, being able…”
May 2, 2024 positive
May 2, 2024 bullish
Wu: In 10 years, learning coding languages will seem obsolete
“You know, I think 10 years from now, people will look back and think, wow, isn't it crazy that, you know, you had to learn all these esoteric languages and you had to, you know, work through all these stack traces or whatever just to be able to communicate wit…”
May 2, 2024 positive
Scott Wu: Great startups, like math competitions, require identifying non-intuitive truths
“A lot of the really great math or programming problems are kind of about, you know, what are all these assumptions that you take for granted and which one of those might actually not be true, you know and a lot of these really tough problems and really interes…”
May 2, 2024 positive
May 2, 2024 neutral
Wu: Future software engineers will resemble technical architect and product manager hybrids
“I think the, you know, I think the role of A software engineer five or 10 years from now, it looks something like a mix between a technical architect and a product manager today, you know, where, where a lot of what you do is, you know, you take problems that …”
May 2, 2024 neutral
Wu: Devin executes precise specifications rather than deciding product direction
“Devin is very much not the one who is going to be deciding what to do. If that makes sense. And so, you know, we very much think of Devin as you provide the precise formulation of what you want built or what you want done, and Devin is the one that is doing th…”
Jan 16, 2025 positive
May 29, 2025 neutral
Gil: AI coding market has consolidated into a few key players
“Encoding, it seems like it's consolidated into two or three players. You know, maybe that's Cursor, Codium, Cognition, and then Microsoft, Microsoft's like Copilot, right? But there aren't probably like two dozen companies that are all still competing there.”