Demoting the IDE
Jeff Wang, President of New Enterprise at Cognition, said AI coding agents now handle roughly 40% of the workload at Cognition, and Devin automatically fixes 70% of vulnerabilities at some large banks…
Jeff Wang, President of New Enterprise at Cognition, said AI coding agents now handle roughly 40% of the workload at Cognition, and Devin automatically fixes 70% of vulnerabilities at some large banks…
A developer compiled a list of 10 open-source GitHub repositories that can replace expensive paid SaaS applications, including Coolify as a Heroku/Netlify/Vercel alternative, an autonomous AI coding a…
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, acquired TierZero on July 20, 2026, marking the first of three acquisitions announced in a single week, to extend Devin from writing software into…
Cognition, the maker of Devin, acquired The Interaction Company of California, the parent of personal AI assistant Poke, in a deal reported in the low nine figures and announced on July 23, 2026. Poke…
Exa, an applied AI lab that powers search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers, is hiring an ML Research Engineer in Singapore with a salary range of SGD 90k–300k per year. The …
Anthropic reported that a Fable 5 orchestrator directing Sonnet 5 workers retained 96% of an all-Fable team's score on BrowseComp at 46% of the cost, signaling a shift in multi-agent economics. The or…
Vercel Sandbox now supports Devin Outposts, allowing each Devin session to execute in an isolated Sandbox microVM with session orchestration and command execution running in the user's Vercel project.…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 95 billion active parameters and a million-token context window, and demonstrated an autonomous 16-day …
Software engineer and Cognition employee Chris Olah argues that the software job market is booming for those who embrace AI, while those who cling to traditional roles face layoffs, citing Opus 4.5's …
Cognition announced on July 23 that it acquired The Interaction Company, maker of the texting-based AI assistant Poke, for a low-nine-figure valuation according to TechCrunch. Cognition plans to integ…
A developer using Claude Code's desktop app since March 2024 reports that large language models have transformed software development, collapsing traditional two-week sprints into hours and making rol…
Attention Engineering co-founder Aidan Guo opened a local preview of Coast on July 28, pitching software that records desktop context on-device so users and AI agents can retrieve it later. Coast is d…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu argues that traditional AI benchmarks are losing their meaning as models saturate every test, with the company's AI coding agent Devin approaching near-perfect scores on SWE-Ben…
Mercor, a $10 billion AI training startup, is reverting to whiteboard interviews and ditching take-home assignments that can be completed with AI, according to head of product Osvald Nitski on the "20…
Cognition acquired Poke, a conversational AI startup, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures, according to TechCrunch. The acquisition will bring Poke's interaction model and personalit…
Cognition acquired Poke to integrate conversational nuance and distinct persona into its Devin coding agent, aiming to reduce cognitive load during complex debugging and deployment tasks. The acquisit…
Cognition, the $26 billion startup behind the autonomous coding agent Devin, has acquired The Interaction Company of California, makers of Poke, the first AI agent Apple officially supports inside iMe…
Cognition, the AI lab behind autonomous coding agent Devin, has acquired The Interaction Company, the startup behind text-based AI assistant Poke, in a deal valuing the target in the low nine figures.…
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired The Interaction Company of California, the maker of the AI assistant Poke, in a deal valued in the low nine figures. The acquisition will bring Poke's conversa…
Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark, released in June 2026, evaluates whether AI-generated code would actually be merged by a senior engineer, and across every model tested the answer is mostly no. The…