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1. lunchclub · cognition-quests · 2017–2022 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2017–2022",
     "detail": "lunchclub — scott wu's pre-cognition company, co-founded with vladimir novakovski: an ai 'superconnector' for professional introductions, a16z-backed (~$30m raised), forbes 30 under 30, and the reason andreessen could later say he was backing wu 'for the second time.' wu left in 2022; the startup made him a repeat founder before cognition existed.",
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2. the eight pivots · cognition-quests · 2023 (year)

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     "dates": "2023",
     "detail": "the crypto pivot that wasn't — per wu's own account, cognition ran ~eight pivots before the autonomous-engineer concept, and the earliest was reportedly a crypto project. exact details are thin and stay unverified.",
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3. the upwork side hustle · cognition-quests · 2024-03 (month)

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     "dates": "2024-03",
     "detail": "'devin's upwork side hustle' — the demo where devin reportedly completed real freelance jobs, narrated by walden yan. the quest that produced the debunk: internet of bugs showed the brief had been misread, the bugs self-generated, the 'hours' compressible to ~36 minutes.",
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     "title": "the upwork side hustle",
     "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTS2Hz96HYQ"
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4. openhands · cognition-quests · 2024-03-13– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024-03-13–",
     "detail": "openhands (né opendevin) — the open-source replication created one day after the launch, now ~85k stars: the community's standing answer to a demo it couldn't inspect, and the control group for every 'devin is fake' cycle.",
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     "status": "continuing",
     "title": "openhands",
     "url": "https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands"
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5. azure and aws · cognition-quests · 2024-05– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024-05–",
     "detail": "the microsoft relationship — devin on azure announced at build 2024 for code migration and modernization, extended by a multi-year aws strategic collaboration agreement in september 2026. the cloud-vendor distribution channel alongside direct sales.",
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6. the open-source initiative · cognition-quests · 2024-12– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024-12–",
     "detail": "the devin open source initiative — free acus for oss maintainers, announced two days after ga, with devin contributing to anthropic's mcp, llamaindex, and zod. later the mcp marketplace (july 2025) made devin a citizen of the server ecosystem it helps maintain.",
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7. deepwiki · cognition-quests · 2025-05– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025-05–",
     "detail": "deepwiki — free ai-generated documentation for any public github repo; grew into devin wiki and devin search inside the paid product. the company's top-of-funnel gift to every codebase on earth.",
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     "title": "deepwiki",
     "url": "https://deepwiki.com"
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8. the swe model family · cognition-quests · 2025-10– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025-10–",
     "detail": "the swe model family — cognition's in-house models: swe-grep and swe-grep-mini retrieval models, swe-1.5 (frontier-size, served by cerebras at up to 950 tok/s), swe-1.6 and swe-1.7, swe-2, swe-check (an rl bug-detection model built with applied compute), and the fusion harness running 'fable' and 'astra' in devin desktop and cli. performance claims are self-reported.",
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     "title": "the swe model family",
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9. cognition for government · cognition-quests · 2026-02– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2026-02–",
     "detail": "cognition for government — the gov offering launched february 2026; fedramp high (class d) in-process by july; an mou with the department of energy's genesis mission; the us army and navy named as devin customers at the series d.",
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     "title": "cognition for government",
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10. the productivity guarantee · cognition-quests · 2026-06– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2026-06–",
      "detail": "the ai productivity guarantee — an in-house estimator converts devin's output to engineer-hours; if delivered value underperforms the price, cognition funds usage up to $10m. outcome-priced agent labor, self-measured — the quest that turns the labor analogy into contract language.",
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      "title": "the productivity guarantee",
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11. the security swarm · cognition-quests · 2026-07 (month)

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      "dates": "2026-07",
      "detail": "the security quest — devin security swarm plus a vulnerability remediation program, shipped early july 2026 as the agent's mandate widened from writing code to defending it.",
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      "title": "the security swarm",
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12. the global offices · cognition-quests · 2026-01– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2026-01–",
      "detail": "the geographic build-out — london office (first in europe) with cognizant in january; cognition japan under takumi masai in april; a singapore apac base under richard spence; infosys and ltm partnerships reaching hundreds of enterprise clients.",
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13. tierzero and poke · cognition-quests · 2026-07 (month)

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      "dates": "2026-07",
      "detail": "the acqui-hire shelf — tierzero and the interaction company (makers of poke) absorbed in july 2026, extending the pattern the windsurf deal set: buy the team, keep the product surface.",
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      "title": "tierzero and poke",
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14. factoring rsa-260 · cognition-quests · 2026-09 (month)

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      "dates": "2026-09",
      "detail": "factoring rsa-260 — a research post where devin plus a researcher built a top gpu lattice siever and factored the rsa-260 challenge number. the 'agents do research' proof point, shipped the day after the series e.",
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      "title": "factoring rsa-260",
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15. the diaspora · cognition-quests · 2025-07– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2025-07–",
      "detail": "the diaspora — windsurf founders varun mohan and douglas chen to google deepmind; neal wu, scott's brother and a founding advisor, to mira murati's thinking machines lab in february 2026; the windsurf rank-and-file absorbed, bought out, or retained under a six-day culture memo. where the people went is its own record.",
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16. devin builds devin · cognition-quests · 2024– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2024–",
      "detail": "the dogfooding loop — 'how cognition uses devin to build devin' (february 2026) plus the escalating internal-code claims: ~25% of prs in early 2025, 13% of production code at some earlier point, >89–95% by mid-2026. the self-reported numbers the valuation slides are built on.",
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