Cognition: many software engineering tasks are now 'intelligence saturated'—cost and speed are all that matter

FlyOnTheWalsh · x · 2026-10-19

Cognition CEO Russell Kaplan says internal data is directionally consistent: many software engineering tasks are now "intelligence saturated"—once any model can do the task well, cost and speed are all that matter.
Another founder adds that the real bottleneck is the software around putting models in executable environments where humans can trustfully review their work, forcing tooling to stay three standard deviations ahead of general capability.