“meaning like the development agents like Cursors and Devins and such?”
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Devin
By Cognition AI
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“that's an app that I like vibe coded like over a weekend with Devon”
“There's cursor, there's Windsorf, Devon, Copilot.”
“Scott is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, which makes a product called Devon, the world's first autonomous AI software engineer.”
“we use a ton of Devon when we're building Devon.”
“treat Devon like your new junior engineer.”
“we're using Devon as well which is another you know that's more advanced”
“this AI agent called Devin, which can code anything for you supposedly.”
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