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Meet Devin | Cognition's AI Tool That Could Change Software Engineering Forever

Backed by $200 million in funding, Scott Wu and his team at Cognition are building an AI tool that could potentially disintegrate the whole industry, at a $2 Billion valuation.

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Bruce Burke
Feb 17, 2025
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Just before Christmas in 2023, the small team at Cognition was struggling to set up a particularly complex data server for the San Francisco–based AI startup’s fledgling coding assistant, Devin. They’d spent hours poring over installation documents and trying different commands but just couldn’t get it to work. Tired and frustrated, they decided to see …

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