Cognition acquires Poke to bring consumer-style interactions into Devin

Poke will remain available while its founders join Cognition, which plans to apply the assistant's proactive messaging design to its coding agent.

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Cognition is buying the interaction model behind Poke, giving the enterprise-focused Devin team a consumer agent that already initiates conversations and works inside messaging apps.

Cognition acquires Poke to bring consumer-style interactions into Devin — Poke will remain available while its founders join Cognition, which plans to apply the assistant's proactive messaging design to its coding agent.

Cognition co-founder and CEO Scott Wu (@ScottWu46) said Thursday that Cognition is acquiring The Interaction Company of California, bringing Poke founders Marvin von Hagen (@marvinvonhagen) and Felix Schlegel (@felixms) into the AI coding business.…

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