Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans
Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.
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Coding copilots and agentic IDEs — Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, and the prompts that make them actually ship code.
Coding assistants have moved from autocomplete to agentic tools that plan, edit across files, and run commands — Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf and others. The differences that matter are context handling, edit reliability, and how faithfully they follow instructions. This hub tracks the tools and the prompts that make them ship.
Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.
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The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of…
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