Last updated: October 28, 2025 by the editorial team
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Originally published in Towards Artificial Intelligence.
How a Startup Became a $10.2 Billion Company Without Being the Smartest in the Room.
Crazy amounts of money are flowing into AI coding startups, and yet we are drowning in AI coding tools. GitHub Copilot suggests code as you type. Cursor provides an AI-powered IDE that feels magical. Anthropic offers Claude Code for terminal-based programming. OpenAI models are getting better at writing software. Google Gemini can generate entire applications.
The article discusses how Cognition AI, through its flagship product Devin, aims to revolutionize software engineering by using artificial intelligence that autonomously manages coding tasks. Despite the plethora of AI tools available, Cognition stands out for promoting a new category of “autonomous agents” that can perform entire engineering tasks without constant human supervision. Cognition's success can be seen in its significant funding and significant market valuation, which contrasts with the challenges it faces as developers may prefer a collaborative approach to delegation. The discussion includes insights on Cognition's acquisition strategy and the future of artificial intelligence in software development.
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