I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the deal. I won’t go into detail for legal reasons, but I’d like to be transparent about my personal situation. I was given an offer that would explode same day. I had to forfeit all of my vested shares earned over my 3.5+ years at Windsurf. I was ultimately given a payout of only 1% of what my shares would have been worth at the time of the deal. In going to Cognition, I’ve chosen a different direction. For someone who loves software engineering, Cognition feels like home. It reminds me of the energy of the earliest days of Windsurf, where we wrote excessive amounts of code and had excessive amounts of fun. Really excited to see how we can take the best of Devin and Windsurf to make the world’s best IDE and coding agents.

To accelerate AI adoption, we need an AI standard. What Moody’s is for bonds, FICO for credit, SOC 2 for security. Standards offer credible signals of who to trust. They create confidence. Confidence accelerates adoption. Introducing AIUC-1: the world’s first AI agent standard

thinking in front of a screen restricts you to 2D thinking. it’s useful for reading, writing, coding, and spreadsheets that’s why the best thoughts are in the car, shower, or long walks

We've raised a $100M Series A from @ThriveCapital, @greenoaks, and a host of great angels. Everyone’s brain can work better. Engineering that idea into reality is the most impactful advancement we can make to life.

Never give up handcrafted writing Undertake the labor, work through the frustration Resist the temptation to become intellectually sedentary

Our 2025 ambition: enable builders everywhere to create voice‑AI agents that easily pass the Turing Test - where every conversation feels real and emotionally alive.

RT @swyx: glad this is public now - learning about how this deal went down and how Scott masterminded the whole thing made me significantly…

aura is the final resource, the remit of worship objects that cannot be recreated. the mona lisa original has aura. the papacy of rome has aura. a city block of lower manhattan has aura. a great historical romance has aura. if any are destroyed they can never be remade

As kids, we used to say “sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you.” What nonsense. Words can bend the universe more than sticks and stones ever will. Some move markets. Others save souls. To speak is to cast spells, and it’s worth taking that seriously.

RT @ScottWu46: Jeff is an incredible operator and a caring leader. Honored to get to work together.