Scott Wu
Person on 4 sites
American entrepreneur and competitive programmer, co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind the coding agent Devin.
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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When faced with a tradeoff, pick the ambition-maximizing direction. (opens korrents.com)
“At Cognition, one of our values is to go for it all: when faced with a tradeoff, pick the ambition-maximizing direction.”
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Coding agents are now good enough that ambition is the only constraint left. (opens korrents.com)
“Now it is! The only constraint left is how ambitious you're willing to be.”
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Different AI models are not perfectly interchangeable for coding agents, which makes routing hard. (opens korrents.com)
“Even if different models can pass the task, there are subtle differences in behavior & style that mean they aren't perfectly interchangeable.”
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When faced with a tradeoff, pick the ambition-maximizing direction. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Power Law (opens rcmnd.app)
“there's book called The Power Law by Sebastian Malib, which I I really like. It basically is just kind of like a yeah, a tour of of many of the the great businesses and the great products that have been built over the…”
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The Great Gatsby (opens rcmnd.app)
“I actually have always really liked the The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. as one of my personal favorites as a fiction book.”
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Aura frame (opens rcmnd.app)
“I got an Aura frame recently. It's just like, you know, a frame that shows photos and you can show a new photo every day or every hour or, you know, every 15 minutes or whatever you like. And I've actually I've I've…”
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The Power Law (opens rcmnd.app)