The Roastery
Essays on developer community, agent orchestration, and what I'd build for Cognition. Editorial by design — highlight any line and you'll see Devin blue.
- The Proposal · 5 min
Brewing Community: What I'd Build for Cognition in 90 Days
A concrete first-quarter plan for Cognition's developer community: curriculum, a global meetup network, and an ambassador flywheel.
- Playbook · 6 min
From Cafe Cursor to Cafe Cognition: A Field Guide to a Global Meetup Network
Cursor turned coffee shops into a 200-city community engine. Here's the playbook for doing it for Devin, and where a sustained chapter network beats pop-ups.
- Field Notes · 6 min
Devin Beyond Code: The Non-Coding Use Cases Nobody's Teaching
Everyone teaches Devin for PRs and migrations. The underserved frontier is research, data analysis, docs, and design-system upkeep, and it's how you grow the community beyond engineers.
- Field Notes · 4 min
The View Counter
At fourteen I told a friend that writing answers on Quora was my replacement for social media. He thought I was insane. Then he tried it. Here is the lesson we both took from a refresh button and a number that wouldn't lie.
- Field Notes · 4 min
How to run an internal hackathon that actually goes somewhere
Most corporate hackathons produce a weekend of energy and a graveyard of demos. The ones that stick do boring work up front, and even more boring work after the demos. This guide is that work.