Scott Wu: AI Code Agents — Assistants, Not Replacements for Developers

Friends, I’d like to share a quick AI update: Cognition raised $1B at a $26B valuation, and their agent Devin accounted for 89% of the company’s commits.

I noted a few key takeaways:
- Devin takes on routine, time-consuming work — updates, migrations, maintenance.
- Wu frames the agent as a “buddy”: the goal is to free engineers from routine, not to replace them.
- In practice, the agent performs between a junior and a mid-level developer depending on the task.

Why this matters: it shifts engineers’ focus from routine tasks to creativity and architecture.

Which tasks would you delegate to agents first?
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