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Scott Wu

9 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 27, 2026 by Scott Wu · said 11 times in 6 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Jul 27, 2026 bullish
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Scott Wu: The real AI unlock in software is capacity, not efficiency
“I think the real unlock is not in efficiency, but in capacity, right? It's like, what can we do if we can build so much more?”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 38:32 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
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Wu: Reinforcement learning can solve basically any clearly defined benchmark
“We're kind of getting to the point where you can solve basically any benchmark, right? Because what does it mean to have a benchmark? It means you've already defined the task. You've clarified what success or failure looks like. You've given a bunch of example…”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 30:12 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 27, 2026
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Wu: Roughly 30 of Cognition's First ~50-60 Employees Were Former Founders
“Our first, like, you know, 56 people, I think like 30 of us were, had founded a company before this”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 17:46 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 27, 2026 neutral
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Wu: AI will solve all intelligence problems, but not in six months
“I really don't think that there are, like, intelligence problems that AI will not solve in the long term. I just don't think of that as, like, it's gonna be all over in six months.”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 31:18 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
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Wu: Cognition's shipped code increased roughly 7x in six months
“Even in the last six months, I think the number for us was like, our total amount of code shipped is roughly seven X in that time. And so it's like the number of PRs we've shipped, the amount of code”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 2:13 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 27, 2026 neutral
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Wu: Rapid model leadership shifts deter enterprises from single-vendor lock-in
“Obviously, the way enterprises work is they want to have long-term partnerships, and frankly, it's just hard to know what's going to happen in the long term, right? Like, who even is going to have the best model in six months, or 12 months, or whatever, and I …”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 25:40 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 27, 2026
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Wu: Cognition Offered to Play Thiel's Firm in Poker for 1% Equity
“Since you're such a big fan of poker, you know, we can just play a heads-up poker match for that, and we can have the winner decide whose terms we actually sign. It would have been for, in retrospect, it would have been for, like, one percent of the company or…”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 40:53 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
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Scott Wu: Single-use and self-driving software will exist
“Like single use software is going to exist. Like self-driving software is going to exist, right?”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 39:29 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
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Wu: Cognition writes roughly 95% of its code using Devin
“Obviously we use a ton of Devon to build Devon. In fact, we almost exclusively use Devon to build Devon at this point, like, 95% of the code or something's written by Devon.”
Scott Wu Jul 27, 2026 ▶ 2:00 Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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