No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
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…
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Chapters (10)
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
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