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[swyx @swyx]

Reupping the @devinai explainer now that everyone is suddenly loving kloud koding because @ryancarson said so

(btw devin usage has grown >50% MoM every month this year, it has shocked even scott)

[Scott Wu @ScottWu46]

Lot has changed in the last few months. Try out Devin if you haven't already - it's free to get started!

[Ryan Carson @ryancarson]

Paid $500 for @DevinAI - liking it so far.

You can tell this team is much further than other agent labs when it comes to being truly remote-first.

Very mature, advanced tooling and it just works across all surfaces (iPhone, Slack, Browser, GitHub, Linear).

I was tired of trying to hand-connect everything with a custom setup of Open Inspect + Codex + Linear.

When you look at your hourly effective rate, it stops making sense trying to hand-build all this stuff.

Nvm the all the maintenance hours you need to put in.

I'll keep using Devin 100% for the next week and report back.

So far, my PR shipping velocity is higher than before - so that's good obv.

[Cognition @cognition]

We’ve raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation to advance the frontier of AI coding agents.

The round was led by Founders Fund with other existing investors including Lux, 8VC, Neo, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, and Swish VC all doubling down. We’re also joined by new investors including Bain Capital Ventures and D1 Capital.

Two of our early investors, Christian Lawless of Conversion Capital and Emily Cohen of Neo, have even joined our team full-time.

[Scott Wu @ScottWu46]

People have asked about our culture and recent employee communications. Cognition has an extreme performance culture, and we’re upfront about this in hiring so there are no surprises later. We routinely are at the office through the weekend and do some of our best work late into the night. Many of us literally live where we work. We know that people who joined Windsurf didn’t expect to join Cognition and while we’re proud of how we work, we understand it’s not for everyone.

We gave our team the opportunity to decide. We offered for all employees who joined via acquisition to opt into our culture with full clarity on what entails. We know that we will lose some strong talent in doing this, but we truly believe the level of intensity this moment demands from us is unprecedented. While not everyone is looking for a culture like ours, everyone deserves respect and appreciation for their work. Regardless of their decision, we accelerated and cashed out all four years of equity for everyone from Windsurf, even for the 85% of employees who hadn’t hit their one year cliff. And for those who opt out, we’re providing an additional nine months of pay on top of this.

[TAOL101 @TAOL101]

@jeffwsurf Legend

[Devin Desktop @devindesktop]

Wave 11 is live!

Seven big upgrades to Windsurf 🧵

[Solomon Hykes @solomonstre]

IMO @cognition_labs should be recognized, everyone from OpenAI to Cursor is basically copying their "background agent" model. It simply doesn't make sense to trap agents inside an IDE or desktop app. Frontend is nice, but the real game will be played in the backend.

[Marvin von Hagen @marvinvonhagen]

@OpenAIDevs free + better 👇

[TAOL101 @TAOL101]

@icon Icon

[Cognition @cognition]

Devin fixes 10,000+ hours of technical debt, letting @tryramp engineers focus on shipping great features, fast.

Read more about how Ramp uses Devin to optimize their test suite, build automatic test coverage, clean up complex feature flags, and more.

https://t.co/pWDAHP7ZEM

[TAOL101 @TAOL101]

@rox__ai @ishanmkh @HarryStebbings @20vcFund 🐐

[Rox @rox_ai]

built different.

@ishanmkh x @HarryStebbings on @20vcFund

[TAOL101 @TAOL101]

@eglyman 🙌

[Eric Glyman @eglyman]

Incredible UX innovation. Unlike most IDEs that focus on boosting one developer's speed, here you lead autonomous AI engineers who independently handle coding tasks and learn over time, jumping in only when needed

Have to experience to get it, feels like the future of software

[TAOL101 @TAOL101]

@vkhosla Thanks!

[TAOL101 @TAOL101]

@cognition_labs Epic

[Cognition @cognition]

Introducing Devin 2.0: a new agent-native IDE experience.

Generally available today starting at $20. 🧵👇

[TAOL101 @TAOL101]

@icon Amazing

[Kennan Frost @icon]

Excited to introduce Icon, The First AI Admaker.

We’re backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund & execs of frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Pika, & Cognition.

Icon (https://t.co/RKWomrKrAu) is like ChatGPT + CapCut, but for making winning ads with AI in minutes.

How it works:
1. Icon looks at your video library & tags scenes (e.g. "close-up," "unboxing"). These scenes become reusable clips used as lego blocks for making ads.
2. Prompt Icon’s AdGPT to generate scripts focused on specific angles & audiences.
3. Icon finds perfectly matching clips for every script scene & generates an ad that is 80-99% complete.
4. Make edits with our CapCut-like video editor until you're happy.

3-person creative teams make 30 ads per month. With Icon, they make 300.

We co-built Icon with $100M+ revenue brands like Ridge, Jones Road, Immi, Backbone, & MUD\WTR to solve big pain-points:

1. Making lots of ads is extremely painful. Icon helps you automate the tedious parts of scriptwriting, scene matching, video editing, audience research, UGC creation, & more.

2. AI-generated ads look like trash. Icon remixes your existing footage into new ads, matching your production quality & maintaining brand aesthetics.

3. Existing solutions charge $2K-$30K/month for:
🔍 Competitor ad spying & cloning
📈 Creative analytics
📹 Custom & stock avatars for AI UGC
👥 Audience research
📁 Video storage & tagging

Icon does scriptwriting & video editing on top of everything above for just $999/year (their margin is our opportunity 😉).

If you’ve made it this far, we have a surprise for you 👇🏻