Cognition sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
How this was checked
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-11-04).
Verbatim match in the intro: 'Last week, we merged 659 Devin PRs into our own codebase, up from 154 in our best week in 2025.' First-party Cognition text.
How to cite this passage
Cognition, “How Cognition Uses Devin to Build Devin”, Cognition, 2026-02-27, at Intro. https://cognition.com/blog/how-cognition-uses-devin-to-build-devin Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cognition-merged-659-devin-prs-last-week-2026