Cognition’s Scott Wu On How Devin, The AI Software Engineer, Will Work For You

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Scott Wu loves code He grew up competing in the International Olympiad in Informatics IOI and is a world class coder and now he s building an AI agent designed to create more not fewer human engineers This week on No Priors Sarah and Elad talk to Scott the co-founder and CEO of Cognition an AI lab focusing on reasoning Recently the Cognition team released a demo of Devin an AI software engineer that can increasingly handle entire tasks end to end In this episode they talk about why the team built Devin with a UI that mimics looking over another engineer s shoulder as they work and how this transparency makes for a better result Scott discusses why he thinks Devin will make it possible for there to be more human engineers in the world and what will be important for software engineers to focus on as these roles evolve They also get into how Scott thinks about building the Cognition team and that they re just getting started Sign up for new podcasts every week Email feedback to show no-priors com Follow us on Twitter NoPriorsPod Saranormous EladGil ScottWu46 Show Notes 0 00 Introduction 1 12 IOI training and community 6 39 Cognition s founding team 8 20 Meet Devin 9 17 The discourse around Devin 12 14 Building Devin s UI 14 28 Devin s strengths and weakness 18 44 The evolution of coding agents 22 43 Tips for human engineers 26 48 Hiring at Cognition