No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- 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 and how this transparency makes for a better result. Scott discusses why he thinks Devin will make it possible for there to be more human engineers in the world and what will be important for software engineers to focus on as these roles evolve. They also get into how Scott thinks about building the Cognition team and that they’re just getting started.
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Show Notes:
0:00 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 - Наука та технологія
Crazy to see so many haters here. Scott has build a crazy good team and on the way to build a revolutionary product.
how much did they pay you to boottlick?
Probably interns
the haters are there because it seems he faked his demo for devin ai. no one likes a fraud and snake oil salesman
Devin is early but has been fun to use. The planner is especially interesting, and the dev environments are a good start. Appreciate the community on Slack.
OMG !!!! YOU DID IT !!!! It was my request on X (when you asked your audience). You guys are the BEST !!!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing
People should understand this guy needs to protect the IP of his company at this stage. If he revealed their core model to build Devin, they would be eaten alive in no time.
Great pod
There has been some legitimate suspicion that their demo was not entirely authentic. It's all over the Internet, including UA-cam, so it would be interesting to hear their side of the story.
This interview is a great example how to speak 30 minutes without saying ANYTHING about the technology of your product.
Feel not truly legit
Haven't finished the whole interview yet but, he's just not gonna talk about faking the demo at all?
Wow.
I'm sorry buddy, but ClosedAI will launch the Devin like agents of their own, within 6 months. 😢
They're just too greedy, they'll kill all new AI startups of RAG, Memory and everything else. 😢
But even closedAI will lose to Google and Microsoft.
Claude is already in the best position it will ever achieve. Even achieving top 5 within 2-3 years would be hard work for Anthropic.
Only hardware companies have any possibility of makiy any money in this AI race.
Also data centres. 😂
The sandbagging is real. First you have code completion, now code engineering, next comes the frameworks themselves will be written by AI - at that point the human role is done.
They gave him every opportunity to address the criticism of the video and he dodged it the whole time. He didn't say anything of substance. This interview does not inspire any confidence in his company.
LOL We are inviting scammers and griters now?
Wowwww
Github copilot just crushed devin😂
Crypto grifter interviewed by crypto grifters lol