Scott Wu Contrasts Devin's Background Agents With Windsurf's Agentic IDE
Scott Wu · Cognition AI Acquires Windsurf to Push AI Coding · Jul 15, 2025 · at 8:29
Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition AI, explains the complementary product positioning between Cognition's autonomous coding agent Devin and Windsurf's IDE.
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“Building Devon have always focused on this kind of remote background agent as the thing that we Kind of done. Whereas, you know, Windsurf is really focused on the agentic IDE”
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