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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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Scott Wu, Cognition, and Devin: The Autonomous Software Engineer

Cognition's Devin moved AI coding beyond autocomplete by giving a model a sandboxed computer, browser, shell, editor and long-running task loop so it could attempt complete software-engineering assignments.

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