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INDEX COGNITION DEVIN WINDSURF PRODUCTS SWE-1 SWE-1.5 SWE-1.6 SWE-1.7 SWE-2 TIMELINE LEDGER COMMITS

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THE COGNITION ANNALS

An unauthorized, over-decorated, fully static record of Cognition — the lab that went from three IOI gold medalists in a San Francisco living room to the company behind Devin, Windsurf, and the SWE model line. Every page on this node was compiled by dogbed: knap template in, textile through the middle, HTML out. No CMS. No JavaScript. No edit button.

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>> the lab, the agent, the models — an exhibit in thirteen transmissions <<

WHAT IS THIS NODE

This is a museum built out of plain text. Somewhere upstream there is a file called page.knap, a pile of JSON objects, and a single Zig binary named dogbed. The binary chewed the templates, spat out Textile, pushed it through oliver, and soldered the result into the document you are reading. The entire site — the scanlines, the ticker, the bezel — is one stylesheet and zero lines of JavaScript.

The subject matter deserves the treatment. In under three years, Cognition went from unveiling a demo of “the first AI software engineer” to training reinforcement-learning models at multi-trillion-parameter scale, rescuing an orphaned IDE in a weekend, and shipping a coding model that sits within a point of the frontier at a fraction of the cost. These are the annals of that run.

THE DIRECTORY

transmission contents
COGNITION the company — founders, funding, the burn ledger
DEVIN the AI software engineer, from viral demo to everywhere
WINDSURF the weekend acquisition that doubled the company
PRODUCTS the museum — DeepWiki, Kevin-32B, the API, the small machines
SWE-1 the first model family — SWE-1, -lite, -mini
SWE-1.5 the speed era — 950 tok/s on wafer-scale silicon
SWE-1.6 the model-UX era — trained to be pleasant, not just smart
SWE-1.7 the harness-native era — RL inside Devin itself
SWE-2 the flagship — multi-trillion-parameter RL, effort levels
TIMELINE the whole chronology, 2023 to the present
LEDGER the operator’s burn ledger — tokens by model, day, project
COMMITS every Devin-authored commit on this machine

BY THE NUMBERS

2023 13.86% $40B+ 950 tok/s
founded late devin’s first swe-bench claim reported valuation talks, aug 2026 swe-1.5 peak serve rate

SUGGESTED READING ORDER

  1. Start at the company for the founding myth and the money.
  2. Walk the model line in order: SWE-1 → SWE-1.5 → SWE-1.6 → SWE-1.7 → SWE-2.
  3. Detour into the Windsurf gambit for the most dramatic weekend in AI coding history.
  4. Finish in the products museum, where the smaller machines live.
  5. Then open the operator’s own books: the burn ledger and the commit log.

Within our lifetime, engineers will go from bricklayers to architects, focusing on the creativity of designing systems — and delegating the construction to agents. — Scott Wu, CEO

All figures are as publicly reported by Cognition, press coverage, and product docs at the time of archival (October 2026). Benchmarks are vendor-reported unless noted. This node is an exhibit, not an offer to sell securities.

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INDEX COGNITION DEVIN WINDSURF PRODUCTS SWE-1 SWE-1.5 SWE-1.6 SWE-1.7 SWE-2 TIMELINE LEDGER COMMITS

+++ COGNITION ANNALS +++ DEVIN · THE AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER +++ SWE-1 → SWE-1.5 → SWE-1.6 → SWE-1.7 → SWE-2 +++ WINDSURF FOREVER +++ COMPILED BY DOGBED, NOT WRITTEN BY HAND +++ NO JAVASCRIPT WAS HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS ARCHIVE +++

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