Cognition AI's autonomous AI software engineer
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Last Tuesday at 2 AM, my phone buzzed with a PagerDuty alert. A critical production server had drifted out of compliance—some rogue SSH config had made it past code review, and our deployment pipeline was grinding to a halt. I had two choices: spend the next three hours writing and testing a fix myself, or hand the problem off to an autonomous agent to figure out while I slept.
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