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Steven Hao

Co-founder & CTO, Cognition (Devin)

Co-founder and CTO of Cognition, the company behind Devin, the AI software engineer. Earlier he was a senior engineer at Scale AI and a competitive-programming standout (IOI gold medallist).

Key arguments & positions

  • Argues AI agents will do most routine software work, and that engineers should move toward directing and reviewing agent output.
  • Frames Devin as a teammate you delegate whole tasks to, not an autocomplete tool.

Accomplishments

  • Co-founded Cognition in 2023 and serves as CTO; the company builds Devin, one of the first widely demoed autonomous coding agents.
  • Gold medallist at the International Olympiad in Informatics; previously a senior engineer at Scale AI.

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