Patrick

Hunting Horcruxes

[Scott Wu @ScottWu46]

At Cognition, one of our values is to go for it all: when faced with a tradeoff, pick the ambition-maximizing direction.

When we launched Devin in 2024, we envisioned a future where every team had an infinite army of junior engineers. We were early and Devin wasn't good enough.

Now it is! The only constraint left is how ambitious you're willing to be.

[Hone @hone]

Announcing Hone

Intelligence has become abundant. Yet the world looks remarkably similar to how it did five years ago. With every model release, the gap between what frontier AI can do and the economic value derived from it widens.

Closing the gap requires re-organizing work around organizational outcomes, not individual tasks. Hone builds AI that creates, orchestrates, and improves agents and software continuously to own organizational outcomes over weeks and months.

We are ex-founders and early core contributors to Cognition, Mercor, Ramp, and OpenAI. We obsess over real-world value, not theoretical benchmarks.

Our core beliefs on closing the gap in the thread below.

[Mike Julian @mikejulian]

I've spent an hour with @cognition's Devin and holy hell, why are Cursor/Codex/Claude Code getting all the love?

This is pretty great so far.

[Cognition @cognition]

We’re thrilled to welcome @anhangz and @yunpark93 from TierZero to Cognition!

TierZero builds agents that keep your product running: handling incidents, alerts, customer issues, and reliability.

Together, we’re bringing these capabilities and more to Devin Automations.

[Jared Palmer @jaredpalmer]

Personal update: I’ve joined @Cognition to lead engineering.

I’m grateful to @asha_shar and everyone at Xbox for an amazing year.

Excited for this next chapter with @ScottWu46 and team.

[Patrick @SirCelli]

@russelljkaplan Congratulations!! Here’s to endless health for you and your family!

[Cognition @cognition]

AI should earn its keep. Introducing the AI Productivity Guarantee.

If Devin delivers less engineering value than you’re paying for, Cognition will fund your usage until it does, up to $10 million.

It’s time for the AI industry to stop maximizing tokens and start maximizing productive output.

[Cognition @cognition]

More than half of Cognition's first 50 employees were former founders.

@ScottWu46 sat down with @breeves08 and @lux_capital to talk about correctness over comfort, staying focused on our mission, and what it takes to build an incredible team.

[Devin Desktop @devindesktop]

Introducing Devin Desktop: the next generation of Windsurf

Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface

Support for any ACP-compatible agent

With a full IDE for when you need to jump into the code

[Cognition @cognition]

Introducing Devin Desktop.

Manage fleets of local and cloud agents from one surface. Plan, delegate, review, and ship without leaving your editor.

[Scott Wu @ScottWu46]

from the goat himself

[Devin @DevinAI]

Man I've been kind of busy 😅

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation https://t.co/5Lrkm28aFC

[Scott Wu @ScottWu46]

Grateful for our customers, investors, partners, and most of all for our incredible team. Hard to believe it's only been two years.

Still a long way to go to build the future of software engineering - we are hard at work every day on making Devin even better! If you haven’t tried it in a bit, check it out and let us know what you think: https://t.co/1eSXfDfReg

[Russell Kaplan @russelljkaplan]

Big milestone today. But still very early for self-driving software.

When I was working on Autopilot at Tesla, we had an internal infra project called "Operation Vacation" - the goal being that the entire Autopilot engineering team could take a vacation and come back to a better self-driving stack as long as the data kept flowing and the models kept training.

We'll soon see the same idea come to life for entire software products, managed and improved by fleets of Devins.

Last year, our usage graph had a big dip during the holidays. A goal on our engineering team is that the same time this year has no dip, because the Devins are proactive and working by default. Automations are live in the product already - give it a try!

[Cognition @cognition]

1/ We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by @Lux_Capital, @generalcatalyst, and @8vc.

Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492 M.

We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since then, cloud agents have gone from niche to mainstream, and today they are the fastest growing way to create software.

[Russell Kaplan @russelljkaplan]

I don't think people realize how different programming feels when proactive automations are set up.

On every important Slack channel inside Cognition, we have a Devin automation monitoring all posts - triaging, solving, routing, reviewing. Devin knows who works on which parts of the codebase, who to loop in for feedback / approval, and when to chime in vs. stay silent.

The baseline hum of engineering progress is almost entirely autonomous now. Engineers steer the big bets for future product directions while Devins maintain and polish the status quo.

[Jared Zoneraich @imjaredz]

Big thing just happened

For the first time, more Devins are being triggered by agents than by humans. events, schedules, other Devins

Our vision from day one is that Devin will be a teammate, not just something in your toolbox

Devin should work while you take a walk & while you sleep. it should be the first responder to Datadog errors and user feedback.

it should be proactive, not reactive

[Sri Batchu🇺🇸 @sri_batchu]

Never seen a company hype a competitor CEO so much (they have OOH on it too). Testament to the extraordinariness of @ScottWu46 and @cognition.

[Scott Wu @ScottWu46]

grateful for our deep partnership with the whole Anthropic team! seems i will never get to live down my middle school math videos though