Scott Wu is the founder and CEO of Cognition, as Cognizant's January 2026 announcement of a partnership with the company states. Wu wrote Cognition's March 2024 post introducing Devin, an AI software engineer the post describes as a teammate that can build alongside engineers or independently complete tasks for them to review, and the July 2025 note to the Cognition team on the company's acquisition of Windsurf. Wu continues to write company announcements on Cognition's blog, including a July 2026 post welcoming The Interaction Company, the makers of Poke, to Cognition.1234
At a glance
- Current role
- Founder and CEO
- Company
- Cognition
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Agents, Developer tools
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 5
- Profile reviewed
Cognition
Scott Wu is the founder and CEO of Cognition. In March 2024 Wu wrote the company's post introducing Devin, which Cognition describes as an AI software engineer that can build alongside engineers or independently complete tasks for them to review.21
In July 2025 Wu wrote to the Cognition team that the company had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE. In January 2026 Cognizant announced a partnership with Cognition to bring autonomous software engineering to enterprise modernization and engineering programs, quoting Wu as founder and CEO.31
Writing
Wu continues to write announcements on Cognition's blog. A June 2026 post introduced an AI estimator that reviews completed Devin sessions to measure productive engineering output, validated against engineers' own time estimates, as the basis for an AI Productivity Guarantee for enterprise customers. In July 2026 Wu welcomed The Interaction Company, the makers of the Poke assistant, to Cognition.54
Work and contributions
Devin Proprietary product
Author of Cognition's March 2024 post introducing Devin, which describes the agent as a teammate that can build alongside engineers or independently complete tasks for them to review.2
Windsurf acquisition Proprietary product
Wrote the July 2025 note to the Cognition team, published on Cognition's blog, announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE.3
Timeline
- Introduced Devin, Cognition's AI software engineer, on the company blog.2
- Announced Cognition's definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE.3
- Quoted as founder and CEO in Cognizant's announcement of a partnership with Cognition.1
- Introduced Cognition's AI Productivity Guarantee and its estimator of Devin's engineering output.5
- Welcomed The Interaction Company, makers of Poke, to Cognition.4
Where they work
- Cognition 3 people in the wiki
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- Jared PalmerAlso at Cognition
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- Mario RodriguezDeveloper tools · Agents
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- Amjad MasadDeveloper tools · Agents
- Robert BrennanAgents · Developer tools
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References
5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026
- Cognizant and Cognition Partner to Scale Autonomous Software Engineering (Cognizant newsroom)
- Introducing Devin (Cognition blog, by Scott Wu)
- Cognition's acquisition of Windsurf (Cognition blog, by Scott Wu)
- Welcoming The Interaction Company (Cognition blog, by Scott Wu)
- AI should earn its keep: Introducing the AI Productivity Guarantee