- Joined
- May 2024
- How they joined
- Directly
- Status
- Current
- Mokshit Jain works at Cognition AI as a Software Engineer, UI, from June 2024 to Present.Jun 2024
- Mokshit Jain is building Devin, described as the world's first AI software engineer, at Cognition AI.
- Mokshit Jain was one of the first 10 employees at Cognition, the company building the AI software developer Devin.
- Mokshit Jain was hired at Cognition and has been building Devin there.
- Mokshit Jain randomly DMed Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Twitter, which reshaped his entire career.
- Mokshit is credited (with Prem Nair, Dev Chheda, Jeffrey Ling, Jacob Teo, Ben Pan, Aidan Blum Levine and Egor Gagushin) on 'Windsurf Wave 12: Devin features in Windsurf' (2025-08-14), which brought DeepWiki and Devin capabilities into Windsurf, the IDE Cognition acquired in July 2025.Aug 14, 2025
- Mokshit Jain is on his second gap year in SF at Cognition and is still leaving for Caltech, which he will join in the fall.2025
- Mokshit Jain started at Cognition with no interview, no degree, and no MacBook.
- Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition AI, said Mokshit's contributions as an engineer on the team would have distinguished him among experienced developers.
- Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) sat down with Cognition to hear Mokshit Jain's whole story, with the full video at https://www.3blue1brown.com/talent/cognition/.Apr 28, 2026
- Mokshit Jain joined Cognition remotely from India and, after a year of working remote, said it feels good to be in person.Aug 12, 2025
- Mokshit Jain thanked Scott Wu, Extraordinary, Patrick Collison, Tanner Linsley, and Colin Hacks for making his Cognition opportunity possible.Aug 12, 2025
Building Devin, the world's first AI Software Engineer. Founding engineer
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@moritz_stephan was one of the most cracked ppl at cognition, so excited to see what he cooks at hone
@artlevy @cognition welcome to the team!
@jaredpalmer @cognition @asha_shar @ScottWu46 welcome to the team!!
@utkbajpai @geoffwoo @cognition @ScottWu46 👀👀
@colinhacks WHAT i never knew this existed! kinda crazy that windsurf and typewind on npm have same origin😭
@_rajanagarwal @cognition @3blue1brown thank u!!
@30Thrd @windsurf yes u can!
@ibrgma @windsurf what version of windsurf are you on?
i guess clawdbot is the new hype? anyways, the set up is quite a process. have devin set it up for u :)
@josephhhhz @cognition so excited!
been benching 225 ever since they started spraying my food with bindwell pesticides
so proud to be part of this team!
