Cognition: 91% of internal Devin sessions now start without a human
charles_irl · x · 2026-10-10
Recapping Cognition CEO Scott Wu's talk at Modal's Runtime conference:
- Agents are shifting from tab completion to "virtual employees" that own full outcomes
- Frontier models may only need to handle 2% of workloads, with routing distributing the rest to cheaper models
- 91% of Cognition's internal Devin sessions now start without human initiation
The poster also notes the talk cited classic neuroscience work by Lettvin ("What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain"), a nod to the field's deepening intellectual roots.
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