@swyx
ok life update: i'll be joining @Cognition! • Cog just went from 0 to $10b in 2 years • Net burn $20m in company history • Avg successful Devin impl sees >5x growth, $1.5m/yr customer expanded >10x in 8 months (not typo) • Windsurf x Cog cross sell going great, looking fwd to cross build. Lighthouse customers in every vertical. • Windsurf's polish + Wave 13/14 are looking v HYPE! more work to do on Windsurf Tab Here's the 5 decision points I had to cross to "buy" Cognition's rise as an Agent Lab that has the potential to be as dominant in the Decade of Agents: • Short Code timelines, Long AGI timelines • The rise of Agent Labs • Owning the Sync/Async spectrum • Start high, go low • Cracked Engineers + Ramped GTM This is probably TMI but I like to record thoughts in public so I can learn when I am wrong, and for others to follow along. Happy reading, in reply tweet. also: Most of @smol_ai capital base is rolling over to Cognition's round today. I'll be returning the rest. AINews and SmolTalk will remain my passion projects. I will continue to operate @aiDotEngineer and @latentspacepod ferociously independent of Cognition. All Cognition competitors were given ample heads up + red carpet to AIE CODE. Ben and I are BEYOND excited to have Lia step up as the new General Manager of AIE!