- Joined
- Nov 2025
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- AI Engineer SummitCurator
- Status
- Current
- Shawn 'swyx' Wang announced he is joining Cognition, makers of the Devin AI software engineer and now owners of the Windsurf agentic IDE. Verbatim: "I'll be joining Cognition, makers of the Devin AI software engineer and now owners of the Windsurf agentic IDE."Sep 8, 2025
- Most of Smol AI will be joining Cognition as part of the deal, while swyx will continue to work on AI Engineer and Latent Space independently of Cognition. Verbatim: "Most of Smol AI will be joining Cognition as part of the deal, while I will continue to work on AI Engineer and Latent Space independently of Cognition"Sep 8, 2025
- swyx states he will ferociously defend the neutrality and independence of AIE and LS despite the new Cognition deal being bigger than others. Verbatim: "while I will ferociously defend the neutrality and independence of AIE and LS, obviously this new Cognition deal is quite a bit bigger than others"Sep 8, 2025
- swyx says he gave Cognition a lot of grief in private. Verbatim: "But I gave them a lot of grief in private, which is, btw, how you're actually supposed to conduct yourself in polite company."Sep 8, 2025
- Cognition announced going from 0 to a $10B Series C in 2 years, with swyx effectively packing up and joining them. Verbatim: "Fast forward and Cognition is announcing that they have gone from 0 to their $10B Series C in 2 years today, with me effectively packing up and joining them"Sep 8, 2025
- swyx's stated reasons for joining Cognition: Short Code/Long AGI timelines, the rise of Agent Labs, owning the sync/async spectrum, usage-based enterprise pricing with cheap individual seats, and cracked engineers plus ramped GTM.Sep 8, 2025
- Announced he will be joining Cognition in some yet to be defined capacity, while AI Engineer and Latent Space remain independent. Verbatim: "What we also announced was that I ( [swyx) will also be joining](https://x.com/swyx/status/1965183110016098617) Cognition in some yet to be defined capacity, while [AI Engineer](https://apply.ai.engineer/) and Latent Space remain independent."Sep 8, 2025
- Commentary that @swyx is joining Cognition, laying out why he's "buying" the agent-lab thesis and how positioning across sync/async workflows matters for dominance in the "Decade of Agents". Verbatim: "Commentary: @swyx is joining Cognition, laying out why he’s “buying” the agent-lab thesis and how positioning across sync/async workflows matters for dominance in the “Decade of Agents” ( [thread](https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1965183110016098617))."Sep 8, 2025
- Announced he would join Cognition, maker of Devin and owner of Windsurf; most of Smol AI would join as part of the deal, while he would continue AI Engineer and Latent Space independently of Cognition.Sep 8, 2025
- As of January 2025, he was also working on the Smol AI Company (unannounced) and Smol Haus in the Arena.Jan 2025
- He is the founder of Smol AI, the LLM data pipeline company that produces AI News, the widely read AI industry newsletter 99% created by customizable research agents.Jan 2025
- swyx first tried Devin in April 2024 and got a lot of criticism for leaning positive. Verbatim: "When I first tried Devin in April 2024 I got a lot of shit for leaning positive, when all people wanted to talk about was the Upwork video."Apr 2024
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Various companies, including MatX, ArtificialAnalysis, Modal, Fireworks, Airbyte, Dynamic.xyz, Railway, Supabase, Replay.io, Stackblitz, Flutterflow, etc. see more https://swyx.io/portfolio
https://swyx.io/why-temporal
cofounded Svelte Society, grew it, stepped down https://www.swyx.io/svelte-2022 really glad that it's still thriving without me
https://www.swyx.io/writing/hello-aws
https://www.swyx.io/writing/farewell-netlify
quantitative trading/portfolio management, option pricing
started HSIF - the largest real money student investment club at Penn/Wharton
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/shawn-wang-podcast-interview/
ratioed @cognition lololololol never change twitter
really grateful to @realbasilchatha for helping me curate a survey of the entire field of Forward Deployed Engineering in one track! From FDE 101 by @zkevinbai (Anthropic, Palantir, Rippling Founding FDE) to head of FDE practices at: - Decagon - Cursor - Sierra - Ramp - Cogniti
@jaredpalmer @cognition @asha_shar @ScottWu46 welcome!
@jeffwang @cognition auntie grace is SOTA chef
@thejessezhang @cognition we are going to have to raise prices
@imjaredz @cognition it is the summer of subagents
Mythos is live! so excited to have our FrontierCode recognized as the next frontier coding bench. on FC Diamond, BOTH Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 don't meaningfully scale with effort, which many of you caught yesterday. Mythos/Fable posttraining have really applied that test time comp
@tejalpatwardhan this directly inspired my work at @cognition frontiercode https://t.co/ra6cCSe4Kl
@mattlam_ @cursor_ai @FactoryAI @cognition every modelgroup() call is a router, i think there were like 23 when i joined
As part of the most insane AIE lineup to end 2026, we're also excited to announce our final track theme: *Raising your Ambition* featuring @jxnlco, @trq212, @jarredsumner, @sqs, @mitsuhiko, @dexhorthy, @BuiltByJustin (StrongDM Dark Factory) and a special keynote from @echelon
lmaoooo https://t.co/6VGcWsjefZ
after 3 years of building from nothing, we are now serving 2M monthly unique engineers on aie youtube. (76% not subscribed lol. idk if it matters but pls subscribe! we need to keep up momentum to cross 1M subs roughly around https://t.co/ydo8JgYDXr it looks like) https://t.co/q
