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Scott Wu
Cognition
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Scott Wu
Cognition
@ScottWu46
Building @cognition
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Jun 8
    SWE-Bench style grading has been the standard for years now - you ask the agent to solve an issue and then run its code on a pre-constructed unit test. The problem is that passing a unit test is only one part of writing production-ready code. You also want to evaluate agents on
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    Cognition
    @cognition
    Jun 8
    Introducing FrontierCode: a coding eval that raises the bar for difficulty & quality. Each task took 40+ hrs of work by leading open-source maintainers. Models write sloppy code that works but isn’t maintainable. Our eval is first to measure: would you actually merge this code?
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Aug 5, 2025
    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
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Nov 5, 2025
    As an engineer, you spend a lot more time reading and understanding code than you do writing code. But codebases aren't necessarily optimized for this; scrolling through a ton of CRUD functions tells you a lot less about what a file does than a clear explanation of why the code
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    Cognition
    @cognition
    Nov 4, 2025
    Replying to @cognition @windsurf and @paulg
    our mental model for why codebase understanding is valuable and why vibe coding has limits to scale is expressed by this chart: manual understanding is the bottleneck. Codemaps understanding scales with model intelligence x.com/windsurf/statu…
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Jul 14, 2025
    It’s a privilege to welcome Windsurf to Cognition. Here are more details in the note I sent to our Cognition team this morning: Team, As discussed during our all-hands, we are acquiring Windsurf. We have now signed a definitive agreement and we couldn’t be more excited. Here’s
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    Cognition
    @cognition
    Jul 14, 2025
    Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf. The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team. We are also honoring
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Apr 3, 2025
    I'm often asked what programming will look like in 10 years or if it's even worth studying CS anymore. The future of software engineering is the single biggest question we think about in building Devin: 🧵
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Sep 17, 2025
    so insane. you guys have no idea how hard this is
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    Mark Chen
    @markchen90
    Sep 17, 2025
    We wrapped up this year's competition circuit with a full score on the ICPC, after achieving 6th in the IOI, a gold medal at the IMO, and 2nd in the AtCoder Heuristic contest!
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Mar 12, 2024
    I first learned to program when I was 9 years old and fell in love with the ability to turn my ideas into reality. Now, teaching AI to code at @cognition_labs has been a dream come true. We've still got a long way to go; if this sounds like something you'd like to work on, please
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    Cognition
    @cognition
    Mar 12, 2024
    Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Feb 27, 2025
    GPT-4.5 has been awesome to work with. On our agentic coding benchmarks it already shows massive improvements over o1 and 4o. Excited to see the models' continued trajectory on code! One interesting data point: though GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet score similarly on our overall
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    OpenAI
    @OpenAI
    Feb 27, 2025
    GPT-4.5 has entered the Chat. openai.com/live/
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Dec 2, 2024
    Devin has saved companies millions of dollars and has shown as much as an 8x productivity boost in engineering time. Great to chat with Forbes about the work Devin has been doing with customers like Nubank, Ramp, and MongoDB!
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Jun 10, 2025
    The new o3 price drop makes it 15x cheaper than gpt-4-32k, the SOTA model from two years ago. Meanwhile the number of use cases is probably up 1,000,000x. Kudos to the openai team!
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Jul 17, 2025
    am i hallucinating or did we just go from "openai acquiring windsurf" to "cog+ws team shipping wave 11" in seven days
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    Devin Desktop
    @devindesktop
    Jul 17, 2025
    Wave 11 is live! Seven big upgrades to Windsurf 🧵
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Sep 8, 2025
    When we started Cognition, we were a small group of engineers who shared a lifelong love of coding. We hunkered down in an apartment in NYC and built the product we always wanted for ourselves. A lot has changed over the last 20 months but the core vision has not. We see a
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    Cognition
    @cognition
    Sep 8, 2025
    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
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Aug 27, 2025
    No better company for my first ever beer than John and Patrick. Unfortunately was non-alcoholic since I had to go back to work after.
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    John Collison
    Stripe
    @collision
    Aug 27, 2025
    Maths savant turned @cognition founder @ScottWu46 joins me to discuss their AI software engineer, acquiring Windsurf over a weekend, the Moneyball-ification of everything, math contests with @alexandr_wang in 6th grade, the future of independent coding tools, and why he thinks we
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    Scott Wu
    Cognition
    @ScottWu46
    Jun 27, 2025
    Slack came out in 2014. At the time it wasn't obvious why you'd want to use it. We already had email for professional conversations; quick group messages felt too unrefined to use at work. Coding agents are at a similar inflection point today. Most engineers are used to writing
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    Coding Agents 101: The Art of Actually Getting Things Done
    Coding Agents 101: The Art of Actually Getting Things Done
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