approximate knowledge of many things can get you far but especially with AI, deep understanding of a few things gives you much more leverage to do things well
@justinskycak has a bunch of posts around this for math + learning in general
I've worked in biotech to AI and the main path to doing interesting work in new fields is that you have to take personal time to learn the fundamentals, there is no shortcut around it
this should feel difficult
Huge congrats to the Cognition team!
If you tried Devin when it first came out, know it is a completely different product today and among the primary coding agents we use at Exa. Anytime I message the cog team at a crazy hour I get an instant answer. So well deserved.
1/ Weโve 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.