Scott Wu

7 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2024 by Scott Wu · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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May 2, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2029
Scott Wu: AI will lead to more software engineers, not fewer
“I think if anything, there's going to be more engineers, not less and I'll kind of give two reasons why. I think the first is there's just so much demand for engineering out there and so much demand, honestly, even in ways that we don't always think about, rig…”
Scott Wu May 2, 2024 ▶ 9:53 No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
May 2, 2024 bullish
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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…”
Scott Wu May 2, 2024 ▶ 19:13 No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
May 2, 2024 positive
Insight
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…”
Scott Wu May 2, 2024 ▶ 5:36 No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
May 2, 2024 positive
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Scott Wu: Almost all early Cognition hires were former or aspiring founders
“A lot of our team today, in fact, I think almost everyone on our team today I think was either a founder themselves before, or, We're explicitly thinking of starting their own company, if not for cognition.”
Scott Wu May 2, 2024 ▶ 27:23 No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
May 2, 2024 bullish
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Scott Wu: AI will enable software engineers to do 5x more
“I think the average software shares today might spend 20% of their time thinking through all these, like, really fundamental problem solving questions, and 80% of the time writing that in code. And I think they'll, they'll be able to do five x more, and they'l…”
Scott Wu May 2, 2024 ▶ 10:54 No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
May 2, 2024 neutral
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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 …”
Scott Wu May 2, 2024 ▶ 23:37 No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
May 2, 2024
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Scott Wu: Many IOI competitive programming peers became founders in AI
“No, it was a very, very tight knit group. A lot of, honestly, a lot of that group, all, many, many of them became founders. And a lot of them went into AI.”
Scott Wu May 2, 2024 ▶ 5:13 No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
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