2025
Cognition published a post about how much its Devin product improved with Sonnet 4.5.
“They put out a post yesterday about how much their their product devin improved with the model and some of the work they did to to make that product better.”
Topic
Cognition
12 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2026
Angela Jiang says Anthropic runs early access programs with API customers such as Cognition and Cursor before model launches.
“we've engaged with, uh, a lot of customers, like, like Cognition, like, like Cursor”
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Elad Gil cited the teams at Braintrust, Pika, Cognition and Decagon as AI startups with founders from math and coding competition backgrounds.
“But I think the Brain Trust team and the Pika team and Cognition, which launched Evan, and then you all all kind of have that common thread.”
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Cognition acquired Windsurf, so its products now include Devin, an AI coding agent, and Windsurf, an IDE.
“most recently just acquired Windsurf. And so, you know, Devin, the agent, and Windsurf, the IDE.”
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Cognition's largest internal benchmark is called junior dev and measures real-world junior developer tasks, which Scott Wu says may need to become senior dev.
“The biggest is one that we call junior dev, which we might need to upgrade to senior dev pretty soon.”
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Before the Windsurf deal, Cognition had about 35 people, including about 19 core engineers, which grew to roughly 30 to 35 core engineers afterward.
“what we call core engineering was about 19. With WindSurf, obviously the team count has grown a lot.”
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Cognition's engineering interview has candidates build their own version of Devin, a full agent, in about eight hours.
“basically just having people build their own Devin in eight hours and seeing how far they get with it.”
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Scott Wu says about 21 of Cognition's initial roughly 35 people had previously founded a company.
“of our initial kind of 35, I think 21 of us have founded a company before.”
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Cognition contacted Windsurf's remaining leadership the evening the Google deal news broke and met them that same night.
“We reached out to them cold that evening and got to meet the new Windsurf leadership, Jeff and Graham and David, that evening.”
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Scott Wu says Cognition signed the Windsurf acquisition on Monday at about 9 a.m. after an overnight session with lawyers.
“we got it signed on Monday at like 9 a .m. Because us and the lawyers were up all night”
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Windsurf shipped its Wave 11 release a few days after Cognition closed the acquisition.
“We shipped Wave 11, you know, a few days later after we closed that deal.”
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Scott Wu says Cognition offered a buyout to Windsurf staff who did not want its intense culture, and only a small fraction took it.
“most folks have been really excited to come in and do it, and only a small fraction have taken the buyout.”
Episodes
- 27 Oct 2026How Anthropic ships the #1 LLM in the World safely: Separating the Brain from the Hands1h 46m
- 2 Oct 2025The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents51m
- 16 Jan 2025How AI Agents Are Transforming Customer Support, with Decagon’s Jesse Zhang30m
- 27 Aug 2025Cognition CEO Scott Wu on acquiring Windsurf, AI replacing engineers, and the Moneyball-ification of everything57m