Scott Wu
American entrepreneur and competitive programmer, co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind the coding agent Devin.
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Their wordsAt Cognition, one of our values is to go for it all: when faced with a tradeoff, pick the ambition-maximizing direction.
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Their wordsNow it is! The only constraint left is how ambitious you're willing to be.
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Different AI models are not perfectly interchangeable for coding agents, which makes routing hard.
Their wordsEven if different models can pass the task, there are subtle differences in behavior & style that mean they aren't perfectly interchangeable.
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Their wordsThe problem is that passing a unit test is only one part of writing production-ready code. You also want to evaluate agents on a number of other axes, including scope, coding style, and unintended side effects.
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Their wordsMeasuring someone's productivity by their token usage is a horrible idea. Giving everyone the same fixed token budget isn't much better.
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Their wordsThe whole industry needs to move from measuring activity to measuring output.