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Is Cognition Profitable? Devin and the Business Model of Autonomous Software Engineering

Cognition combines unusually fast revenue growth with a disclosed history of low cumulative burn, making Devin one of the most important tests of whether autonomous coding agents can become durable businesses.

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Rodney Brooks and Subsumption Architecture: Intelligence Without a Central World Model

Rodney Brooks's subsumption architecture replaced a single planning-centered robot controller with layered behaviors that could react continuously and robustly to the world.

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