How Cognition Uses Devin to Build Devin - by Nader Dabit

kept by eddie feb 12

Cognition uses its own Devin agents across Slack, Linear, and CLI to merge 659 PRs weekly, automating code review, bug triage, and design-system audits.

SuperDocs - AI-Powered Documentation
SuperDocs uses AI to generate searchable documentation sites from code repositories by analyzing types, flows, and dependencies.
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On DeepWiki and increasing malleability of software.This starts as partially a post on appreciation to DeepWiki, which I routinely find very
DeepWiki auto-builds wiki pages for GitHub repositories with integrated Q&A, significantly increasing the accessibility and malleability of software documentation for developers.
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Introducing FrontierCode
Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark measures code mergeability, finding even top models like Claude Opus 4.8 score only 13.4% on its hardest 50 tasks.
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Async Coding Agents "From Scratch"
A developer demonstrates how to build a custom async coding agent by combining Slack, Modal, GitHub, and Claude Code/Codex headless mode, arguing this makes cloud coding agents like Devin undifferentiated.
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How technical support at Cursor uses Cursor
Cursor's support team uses Cursor with MCP servers to collapse code, logs, and team knowledge, achieving 5–10x throughput gains.
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