devin

Two and a half years after the Devin demo went viral at 13% on SWE-bench, Cognition president Russell Kaplan sits down with Harrison Chase for the most candid accounting yet of what running coding agents at enterprise scale actually costs — and why the industry’s incentives are quietly pointed in the wrong direction. The central claim: a lot of the ecosystem is structurally motivated to get customers to token-max, and the bill is now coming due....

Weekly Video Notes — a short article distilling one talk from the weekly digest. Source video and key frames embedded throughout. In this 1h10m Latent Space conversation, Cognition CTO Walden Yan and engineer Cole Murray walk through what they’re calling Devin’s “80% moment” — the point at which an autonomous coding agent can land production-grade PRs on real codebases at a rate that changes how teams work. Cognition is reporting a 7× increase in merged PRs for teams that adopt their background-agent workflow, and the conversation digs into why hand-held in-IDE coding is no longer the frontier....