Devin interview notes: The next generation software portal will move from writing programs to commanding computers.

This interview with Scott Wu is very suitable for understanding Cognition’s ambitions for Devin.

He did not limit Devin to a coding agent, but focused on the new human-computer interface: the human tells the computer what to do, and the agent decides what code to write, what script to run, and how to complete the task at the backend.

This judgment is very important.

Many white-collar jobs today can actually be solved by one-time software, such as checking 15 LinkedIn profiles, filling out forms, organizing data, and doing Excel analysis.

In the past, it was too expensive to form an engineering team for software that could only be used once, so people had to do it manually.

The opportunity for agents is here: one-time requirements can also temporarily generate execution paths.

Scott doesn’t overstate the schedule, either.

He believes that a lot of things can be done now, but there is still a way to go before "people can clearly define the goals and AI can fully implement them"; His judgment is that most of the problems will be solved in the next five years.

Five years is a long time in AI, but a short time in organizational adoption.

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