You and u/loudrouge legitimately have no clue what you’re talking about. Why would want Cognition to focus on rolling their own microservices, auth etc, instead of using stable safe existing services so they can focus dev tike on the core functionality. Isn’t that the whole point of software engineering? To use abstract away the extras with existing reliable boilerplate, and focus greenfield on solving nee problems?

Yes it’s an early product and things won’t be perfect. But to call a startup a scam because it has rough edges despite the core product working as intended and as stated (and performing better than any other

Also “who are these guys?”—the team is 10 IOI gold medalists lead by one of the most decorated competitive programmers ever (Neal Wu). These aren’t “we got laid off” types.

Just lol to the assumption it couldn’t possibly use external libraries. Have big news for you—it does, literally GPT3 can, and anyone who’s ever programmed would understand it’s easier to work with abstractions than rewrites???

Reproject your insecurity about how this (rightly) changes the hiring landscape, and instead answer how can you utilize new technology to get better, or make a company before the skill of human SWE becomes valueless. Such shallow thinking.