Datadog

Lenny's Podcast · May 4

Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu

Devin has to be taught real engineering tools like Datadog, alongside error diagnosis and opening GitHub PRs, which is where Cognition spends its effort rather than raising base model intelligence.

Tips

• Spend effort teaching the model real-world idiosyncrasies, not raising base intelligence▶ 1:04:00Cognition trains no models of its own, and no single model release was a night-and-day change for Devin.

Lenny's Podcast · Sep 7

An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)

Datadog did something similar to Figma's credibility-building by having engineers write blog posts.

Lenny's Podcast · Jan 29

Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner

Cited as doing well at making customers the heroes by elevating DevOps as a profession.

Tips

• Elevate a profession rather than creating a software category▶ 55:30