Max Martin
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Saw a tweet about the lunch @cognition, so I dropped a comment asking if there was a kosher option. Two days later, Max Martin from Cognition AI’s NYC office reached out and invited me in for a kosher lunch and a tefillin wrap with the Jewish team. We ended up getting a full minyan 10 guys putting on tefillin together. What started as a comment turned into something really meaningful. Pictures below.

ICYMI: Chapter (@askchapter) Raised $100M Series E at a $3B Valuation Led By Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management - 2X valuation <1 year - Total funding ~$285M - 3x revenue growth in 2025, surpassing $100M in ARR - "Past 4 rounds have been preempted" Founded by @CobiBGantz, Chapter is building the leading AI retirement platform. New investors: Fifth Down Capital & @8vc Existing investors: Stripes, XYZ VC (@fubini), Addition, Narya Capital (@JDVance), @SusaVentures, & Maverick Ventures. PS - Cobi also shares key lessons from Palantir about talent density.. including @ssankar's “hamburger rule.” 00:00 Big Funding Announcement 00:18 How Al Gore Joined 01:01 Bipartisan Backing 01:19 JD Vance Investor Era 01:48 Total Raised & Valuation 02:00 Vision for Retirees 02:53 What Makes Chapter Different 04:16 Hot Take: Healthcare > Defense 04:59 LA Medicare Fraud Explained 06:13 Cutting Waste in Medicare 07:05 Palantir Talent Lessons 08:10 Hamburger Rule Wisdom 09:19 Looking Ahead This Year

Devin Review caught the axios supply chain attack for multiple Cognition customers before the attack was publicly known. These attacks will be 10x more frequent in the age of AI; it is critical that repo maintainers start using AI for defense as well. (showing one example below where Devin Review caught the attack within an hour of its release - text minorly edited for anonymization)


EPISODE 147: The New Era of Software Abundance @JTLonsdale visits @ScottWu46 & @russelljkaplan at @cognition HQ 00:00 Episode intro 01:35 Why technical talent & execution matters in AI 06:10 Do young people have an edge in the AI era? 08:26 Cognition's rapid growth 11:55 The new era of software abundance 14:30 Cognition engineers don't type code anymore 19:20 "Never sleep while Devin is idling" 21:25 The case for AI disinflation 23:50 How Devin generates 12X productivity gains 28:25 Cognition for government / taking on complex, broken systems 36:40 The AI race / competition with Anthropic 39:00 Forward deployed engineers? 43:40 How fast are LLMs improving? 47:10 The AI-led small business explosion








Introducing Devin 2.2 – the autonomous agent that can test with computer use, self-verify, and auto-fix its work. Try it for free! We’ve also overhauled Devin from the ground up: - 3x faster startup - fully redesigned interface - computer use + virtual desktop ...and hundreds more UX and functionality improvements.






