Cognition: The Devin is in the Details

My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there.

Cognition: The Devin is in the Details swyx · 2025-09-08 thanks to Turing Post and AI Breakdown for covering this! Twitter too . Thanks Niko for picking up on the Agent Lab thesis - it has since been updated on Latent Space ! Not to bury the lede: I'll be joining Cognition , makers of the Devin AI software engineer and now owners of the Windsurf agentic IDE. Most of Smol AI will be joining Cognition as part of the deal, while I will continue to work on AI Engineer and Latent Space independently of Cognition (As part of restructuring, I'm delighted that Lia is stepping up to be General Manager

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