Scott Wu: AI products will shift from Q&A search to autonomous agents
Scott Wu · Scott Wu on Cognition, Devin, and the Evolution of AI Agents. · Mar 19, 2025 · at 4:11
Cognition AI CEO Scott Wu discusses founding hypotheses behind Devin and how AI interaction models are evolving beyond search and chat interfaces.
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“And then the other thing that we felt really strongly about was that the product experience was going to shift from this kind of more Q and a text completion style products to basically an agent, you know, and practically I think what that means is I honestly, I think a lot of folks today still think of AI as kind of You know, a better Google call it, like you have a question and you want to go search it up, you know, you ask your AI and your AI has a better answer, which is big, obviously. I mean, Google's not a small company, right? But I think the I think the actual vision that we're going towards with AI is actually even bigger than that, which is basically, you know, your buddy that does your chores for you.”
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