Jake Luo

Building @cognition
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Previously @PalantirTech, CS & History @NorthwesternU

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@isaacbmiller1 @justin__dong I hope to write a similar post for cmpnd in 3 years

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

Congrats to the Etched team!

@justin__dong should consider a career switch to early-stage VC

[Etched @Etched]

We're coming out of stealth.

We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised.

Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads.

Our first racks ship this summer.

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@jinsu Congrats and welcome!!

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

The method that triumphs all of this is consistent sleep and staring at the wall for 2 minutes whenever you feel unfocused

[Anastasiia Gaidashenko @avgaydashenko]

good LW post on productivity techniques (link below)
went through it and checked what I actually do vs. what didn't stick

works for me
- task capture: I log every ~15-30min of work hours in my calendar and have AI generate an end-of-day summary
- underschedule: a deliberate weekly block of unplanned time (tho I got here through hypercontrol work, not productivity literature)
- focus on the wildly important: "only hell yes" rule (will write a separate post on my prioritization framework at some point...)
- rest / solitude / productive meditation: honestly my favorite category haha (jacuzzi, weighted blanket, sensory walks, breathwork, jazz clubs, baths, etc etc...)
- also: CBT and EMDR, coaching calls, strength + mobility + endurance 3x+/week, and working with a human personal assistant (not AI!)

didn't stick
- app blockers (SelfControl, Freedom)
- spaced repetition software (tried but abandoned)

the thing the post almost gets to but doesn't quite say: the post ends with "don't make yourself crazy" and flags that rigid scheduling fails where flexible planning survives
what I learned through hypercontrol work is that the urge to systematize everything can be anxiety in disguise rather than genuine productivity
so I spent quite a few years identifying which control patterns were net positive and keeping only those...

https://t.co/nzug5o2qxj

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@hanlee4g I would pay $20/month for Spotify DJ DoorDash playlists where lunch and dinner fitting my prompt shows up at the office every weekday

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

Ask DoorDash is my new obsession

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@hanlee4g It's agents all the way down

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@sarxhxu That’ll be my #1 priority when I’m back in sf

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

June 2026 in NYC was one for the books and somehow July feels like it’ll be even better

[andrew pignanelli @ndrewpignanelli]

june 2026 in new york city probably goes down as the best single month to live in any place ever

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

Devin Fusion is a sign of the times.

As an FDE, my conversations with enterprise CTOs and CDOs over the last two years have largely shifted from AI pilot excitement to token spend management and optimal model selection.

Fusion delivers on both with 2 new harness inventions (Sidekick, Mid-session Routing) to provide Fable-level intelligence at 35% lower cost.

[Cognition @cognition]

Conventional model routing sucks. It passes benchmarks but fails to write code you'd actually merge.

Introducing Devin Fusion, a new hybrid-model harness for agentic coding.

In testing, it reduces the cost of Fable-level intelligence by 35% and still feels good to use.

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@sandylikesfrogs Ongi and This Bowl

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@davidsenra @ScottWu46 @cognition so much lore

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

In college I revisited this essay at the start of every quarter

https://t.co/hEMI4GXfgX

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

what's the greatest blog post on the internet?

i'm talking 'violently shift your entire perception of reality' blog post

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

All the best advice I’ve ever received boils down to some version of being present

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@kylifec Something like tagine or raku

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@jshinny12 @PanteraCapital Congrats!!

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@erikbzhang @PoeticHQ Beast 💪

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

@erikbzhang following in your footsteps 🫡

[Jake Luo @jakejluo]

outcomemaxxing > tokenmaxxing

[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.