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Scott Wu

CEO @ Cognition

Co-founder and CEO of Cognition, maker of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer.

β€œHow Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep, covering AI product work, product design, and engineering tradeoffs.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
CognitionCo-founder & CEO2023-present
LunchclubCo-founder & CTO2017-2022
AddeparSoftware Engineer2014-2015

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β€œYeah, I'd have to look, but it's in the neighborhood of a quarter or so of all of our-”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œYeah, our engineering team today is about 15 people.”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œ"Can you modify Devin web app two?" Let's feature your newsletter as part of the Devin website.”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œYou answer these at any point, you can hand off, hand back off.”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œThat's right. One of the big pieces with Devin is Devin will always be enthusiastic, will always be ready to put in the hours.”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œThey did you dirty. I mean, we need a page list. And so then it went and found it on Spotify.”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œYeah, yeah, yeah. This was this morning, obviously.”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œI'd say writing, investing, and advising. How often does Lenny-”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œYeah. We can go through all these and do all these. I took this quiz, by the way, obviously, to make sure that I was well-prepped, but this is kind of one of the more fun examples, obviously, of [inau...”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œWe use this a lot. It helps when you're scoping out a task for Devin and doing an initial prompt. It also helps, obviously just in a vacuum, you often have questions about your code base that are real...”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œYeah. Yeah. Obviously, the retrieval and processing a lot of code and a lot of tokens at once is something that language models are really great at. Basically being able to get those gains in the plac...”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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β€œYeah. Yeah, cool. Okay. Yeah, Devin did finish working. It seems like there's something going on with the CI and it's debugging that right now, but it went ahead and put up the initial first pass pull...”
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How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (Cognition CEO)

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