How Devin replaces your junior engineers with infinite AI interns that never sleep | Scott Wu (CEO)

Devin is async. Once you kick off a Devin session, Devin's gonna start working and looking through the code, but you're not expected to be there with it. It's just as if you gave your intern a project, and your intern is going and working on it.

Devin's my favorite intern on my team, and I have infinite of them. Why don't you pick a task that you might bite off for your product and show us how you would work through that end to end?

I'll say, "Please go research the ChatPRD MCP server." So this will produce a pull request for us. Often, you're running a few of these at once, just like a nice way to have multiple tasks going and then check in on each of them.

One of the benefits of this from a How I AI use case is you can multithread a lot with tools like this, and set two, three, four, five, 10 of these going at once on different projects and not feel like you have to sit there and babysit things. [upbeat music] Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vo, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today is a very special episode for me because we're talking to Scott Wu, CEO and founder of Cognition Labs, and the builder of one of my favorite AI products, Devin. We're gonna hear about how Scott uses DeepWiki and Devin to kick off well-scoped tasks to get things done, uses Devin as his favorite and most tagged employee inside of Slack, and how he's making it not weird to bring ChatGPT voice into your meetings. Let's get to it.

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Scott, thanks for joining How I AI. As Devin's number one reply guy on X, I am [chuckles] really excited about this conversation, and for you to show off how your company uses, and you use the product that at least makes me very happy, and I'm sure makes lots of software engineering teams out there very happy. So welcome.

Thank you so much for having me. No, I, I'm, I'm honored to be here, honestly. I'm a big fan of you guys, and, and, and all the work you do, so...

Great! Well, we wanna get into... We have lots of stuff to talk about, but what we really wanna do is get into how you AI, and in particular, how you AI with the products that you've built. And, you know, I think what's really fun as somebody who's building AI products, it's, it's something you get to use every day and get really good at, but also probably show some of our listeners and watchers some tips and tricks about using the tools that you've built that they may not have thought about so far. So we're getting the expert look into how to AI with the Cognition product. So what are you gonna show us first, and what are some of your common workflows when you're doing engineering work or trying to move the product forward?