My conversation with @ScottWu46, founder and CEO of @Cognition, the company behind Devin, the first AI software engineer.
0:00 Scott Wu's Obsession With Winning 2:06 Competitive Programming, Games And Finding His People 4:24 Family, Go, And The Roots Of Scott's Competitiveness 8:35 Why Losing Hurts More Than Winning Feels Good 9:38 What Winning With Devin Looks Like 12:55 Devin Today: The AI Software Engineer 13:52 Software As The Human-Computer Interface 18:45 Why AI Progress Is Hard To Intuit 20:39 Thinking About AI From First Principles 22:57 What Happens When Agents Can Work For Months 30:18 The Original Thesis Behind Cognition 31:12 Launching Devin And Handling Criticism 37:17 Finding Product-Market Fit In The Enterprise 42:41 How Cognition Deploys Devin Inside Large Companies 48:34 Measuring ROI Instead Of Token Spend 50:01 Why Cognition Wants To Be Model-Neutral 52:18 Why Focus Lets Startups Beat Giants 57:14 Independence, Acquisitions, And Building A Generational Company 1:00:27 Why Money Is Not The Goal 1:03:42 One Life: Going For It All
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