capital · May 20, 2026
Scott Wu Discusses Cognition Acquisition of Windsurf and AI Coding Agent Future
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Scott Wu, Cognition co-founder and CEO, discussed the evolution of AI coding agents in a recent interview. Cognition acquired Windsurf, maker of a leading agentic coding IDE, over a single weekend with the deal signed on Monday. Devin functions as an async agent for full engineering tasks like features, fixes, and migrations while Windsurf integration supports IDE workflows. Wu stated engineers using agents ship 3 to 5 times faster and predicted a shift where humans stop using code as the main interface in 2 to 4 years. Cognition continues hiring human engineers amid growing demand from agent capabilities.
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