- Joined
- Dec 2025
- How they joined
- Directly
- Status
- Current
“Devin went from doing <20% of my PRs last year to 95% today.”
- Member of Technical Staff at Cognition since Dec 2025; his LinkedIn role description reads 'Leading Windsurf', the agentic IDE Cognition acquired in July 2025.Dec 2025
- Word for word: 'We rewrote Devin Desktop to use the same design and rendering system as Devin Cloud, while preserving full local agent compatibility. It took millions of tokens, but the result is worth it: the UX is 10x better than Windsurf used to be.'Oct 23, 2026We rewrote Devin Desktop to use the same design and rendering system as Devin Cloud, while preserving full local agent compatibility. It took millions of tokens, but the result is worth it: the UX is 10x better than Windsurf used to be.
- Announced the rebrand word for word: 'RIP Windsurf, long live Devin Desktop.'Jun 2, 2026RIP Windsurf, long live Devin Desktop.
- Honeycomb acquired Grit in April 2025, its first-ever acquisition. The Grit product was shut down and GritQL stayed open source. His quote: 'Grit built a powerful codebase analysis engine, but truly understanding software requires observing how it runs in production, and Honeycomb is the best observability platform out there.'Apr 10, 2025
- Founded Grit in New York in 2022, about nine months before ChatGPT launched. Grit built AI agents plus static analysis that open pull requests on their own to handle code migrations and technical debt.May 2022
- X profile, word for word: 'I joined @cognition to build this. Devin + Windsurf brings the best cloud agent right to your IDE. Introducing Windsurf 2.0.'
- Acts as a hands-on product owner in public replies, for example 'What's missing for you in Devin? I'll ship it.' Replying on X is a direct way to reach him with product feedback.Jul 21, 2026@raunakdoesdev What's missing for you in Devin? I'll ship it.
- Word for word: 'Lots of teams are building their own agents on specialized knowledge/context, but don't have a great UX for managing them all in one place. Devin Desktop solves that by embracing open standards as the *primary* way to interact with all agents.'Jun 3, 2026Lots of teams are building their own agents on specialized knowledge/context, but don't have a great UX for managing them all in one place. Devin Desktop solves that by embracing open standards as the *primary* way to interact with all agents.
- Word for word: 'Devin went from doing <20% of my PRs last year to 95% today.'Apr 17, 2026Devin went from doing <20% of my PRs last year to 95% today.
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (IP, product, trademark and brand) in July 2025. Pell joined about five months later and runs the acquired IDE.Jul 2025
- Open source: created GritQL, a query language for searching, linting and modifying code, now hosted at biomejs/gritql. He published a release on Mar 26, 2025.Mar 26, 2025
- Grit raised a $7M seed round led by John Luttig (Founders Fund) and Ramtin N. (Abstract Ventures). Angel investors included Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky, Michael Grinich and Sahil Bloom.Aug 15, 2023
Leading Windsurf
Leading development of Honeycomb's AI features
We make software modernization and maintenance effortless. By combining powerful static analysis and large language models, Grit autonomously opens pull requests to clear out your technical debt backlog.
Led the development of multiple infrastructure-as-code tools and onboarding products that are adopted by the majority of Google Cloud customers ($1B+ revenue). Wore many hats.
Led the design and development of web apps for clients ranging from international corporations to local nonprofits.
I was the first employee at Some Spider and led the technology team as we grew to reach millions of users every month.
Led the development of a new, scaleable analytics infrastructure on MongoDB and StatsD. Improved site performance 40% by refactoring all JavaScript code to use module-based design patterns. Optimized PHP codebase around Zend Framework.
Devin is extremely effective.
We rewrote Devin Desktop to use the same design and rendering system as Devin Cloud, while preserving full local agent compatibility. It took millions of tokens, but the result is worth it: the UX is 10x better than Windsurf used to be.
@jorybraun @jake__cosme Yes, Devin Cloud too. You still need a pro subscription though.
@Ensufall @cognition Yes! It's very efficient this way.
Devin Fusion just got even better. Use your ChatGPT subscription directly in Devin to power the Astra lead, while a free SWE-2 sidekick executes all the work.
@retropragma @cognition Yes! Just run `devin acp --cloud` to connect to Devin Cloud via ACP.
Devin is your developer, but also your devbox. I haven't set up a local development environment in months: even when I need to edit things myself, I just connect directly to the environment Devin already has configured.
@SambitBiswas @cognition This looks like a problem with your custom "lightning-reviewer" subagent? Happy to help fix if you can share the config.
Devin Fusion is an unbeatable combination letting you combine frontier intelligence with free SWE-2.
We're building the most affordable coding model in the world.
@gopalkgoel1 @ryancarson @cognition We do have versions of this for enterprises where session data is also stored in your environment.
@raunakdoesdev What's missing for you in Devin? I'll ship it.
