Scott Wu - Building Cognition - [Invest Like the Best, EP.402]
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My guest today is Scott Wu. Scott is the cofounder and CEO of Cognition, which is an applied AI lab that has created the 1st AI software engineer, which they call Devon. In just a year since founding Cognition, Devon functions at the level of a junior software engineer, capable of handling complete engineering workflows from bug fixing to submitting pull requests. Scott is a former competitive programming champion, and he describes the engineering field as simply the art of telling a computer what you want it to do. Scott predicts AI will surpass the world's best competitive programmer within
Absolutely. And thank you so much for having me. We got started actually just around 1 year ago, and we are focused on building AI to automate software engineering. The product we're building is called Devon, and Devon is the first fully autonomous software engineer. And what that means is that Devon is basically able to do all of the parts of the software flow. And so you work with Devon the same way that you would work with a coworker. And Devon is in your Slack. Devon is in your GitHub. He uses all of your tools and works in your local developer environment. And so you can just tag Devin. Y
the right way to think about if I think about Devon as an actual engineer, its level of sophistication, maybe you could put it in, like, salary terms or something or years of experience terms or some other thing, like, help manage my expectations for how much I could have this thing do without any human involved.
It's very much a junior engineer today.
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