He Joined Cognition at 17 to Build Devin!! (AI Software Developer)

Mokshit was 16 when he DMed Cognition's CEO Scott Wu on Twitter. No interview, no degree, no MacBook when he started. Today he's one of the first 10 engineers at the company building Devin, on an O-1 visa, after turning down IIT prep, Imperial, UCLA, and Caltech.

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00:00 The kid who skipped college for Cognition
01:30 8th grade: learning to code for a Google t-shirt
04:20 Building an AR compression app on an iPad (no MacBook)
08:30 JEE prep vs going abroad: the family pressure
10:50 The fake school email and sneaking into Delhi hackathons
17:35 Cold DMing US founders on Twitter for internships
21:55 March 2024: Devin drops, and the DM to Scott Wu
24:40 Joining Cognition remotely from India as a teenager
25:30 Getting an O-1 visa at 18
26:30 SF vs India: where talking about tech is normal
28:25 Why he's still leaving for Caltech

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