# cognition: side quests

> the pursuits around the product — lunchclub, the upwork demo, openhands, deepwiki, the swe model family, and the diaspora.

- 2017–2022 — lunchclub (scott, handed-off): 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. (sources: [scott wu on lunchclub era + a16z $4m raise](https://share.transistor.fm/s/9c66aedf), [marc andreessen post](https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-cognition/), [bio: b.1997, baton rouge, harvard, lunchclub cto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wu))
- 2023 — the eight pivots (company, ended): 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. (sources: [~15-person eng team each using ~5 devins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0ZNhA0rvE), [founding aug/nov 2023 discrepancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition_AI), [verbatim: 9-person founding team, hyperscaler, tree search](https://www.davidsenra.com/episode/scott-wu))
- 2024-03 — [the upwork side hustle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTS2Hz96HYQ) (walden, ended): '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. (sources: [original demo video narrated by walden yan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTS2Hz96HYQ), [internet of bugs frame-by-frame debunk of upwork demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmgmwEtoWE), [scott wu launch post](https://cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin))
- 2024-03-13– — [openhands](https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands) (community, continuing): 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. (sources: [open-source replication created day after launch](https://github.com/opendevin/OpenDevin))
- 2024-05– — azure and aws (company, continuing): 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. (sources: [microsoft build partnership](https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/120539/microsoft-brings-independent-application-builder-devin-within-reach/), [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog))
- 2024-12– — the open-source initiative (company, continuing): 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. (sources: [linkedin post relaying cognitions ga announcement verbatim](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/soumya1729_just-learnt-that-gennady-korotkevich-aka-activity-7272483300294701058-Tgix), [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog), [mcp server connections for devin](https://cognition.com/blog/mcp-marketplace))
- 2025-05– — [deepwiki](https://deepwiki.com) (company, active): 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. (sources: [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog), [devin 2.0](https://cognition.com/blog/devin-2))
- 2025-10– — the swe model family (company, active): 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. (sources: [frontier-size model](https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-5), [swe-1.6 preview](https://cognition.com/blog/swe-1-6-preview), [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog), [pre-acquisition windsurf swe-1 launch (varun mohan quote)](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250515138505/en/Windsurf-Launches-SWE-1-A-Frontier-AI-Model-Family-Built-for-the-Full-Software-Engineering-Lifecycle))
- 2026-02– — cognition for government (company, active): 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. (sources: [government offering (index listing)](https://cognition.com/blog/cognition-for-government), [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog), [$1b+ at $26b](https://cognition.com/blog/series-d))
- 2026-06– — the productivity guarantee (company, active): 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. (sources: [ai productivity guarantee](https://cognition.com/blog/ai-guarantee), [estimator methodology companion post](https://cognition.com/blog/ai-productivity))
- 2026-07 — the security swarm (company, continuing): 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. (sources: [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog))
- 2026-01– — the global offices (roster, continuing): 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. (sources: [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog))
- 2026-07 — tierzero and poke (company, ended): 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. (sources: [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog))
- 2026-09 — factoring rsa-260 (company, ended): 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. (sources: [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog))
- 2025-07– — the diaspora (community, continuing): 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. (sources: [wang interim ceo](https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai), [neal wu departs cognition founding team for thinking machines](https://www.businessinsider.com/mira-murati-thinking-machines-lab-hires-competitive-coder-neal-wu-2026-2), [wang recounts frantic weekend](https://www.businessinsider.com/windsurf-ceo-jeff-wang-openai-google-cognition-deal-2025-7), [original reporting on layoffs/buyouts](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cognition-offers-buyouts-newly-acquired-windsurf-staff))
- 2024– — devin builds devin (company, continuing): 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. (sources: [full dated post index used for timeline items](https://cognition.com/blog), [$1b+ at $26b](https://cognition.com/blog/series-d), [devin writes 95% of our code](https://www.sourcery.vc/p/breaking-devin-writes-95-of-our-code), [~15-person eng team each using ~5 devins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0ZNhA0rvE), [marc andreessen post](https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-cognition/))

AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

Canonical page: https://hraness.com/cognition/side-quests


Published by @ben in profile revision 1.
Original document: https://hraness.com/cognition/side-quests
Original credited author: Hraness
AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

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