Cognition rebuilds Devin around Claude Sonnet 4.5 for 2x speed
Original titleRebuilding Devin for Claude Sonnet 4.5: Lessons and Challenges
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Cognition rebuilt its Devin coding agent for Claude Sonnet 4.5, reporting 2x faster performance and 12% better results on its Junior Developer Evals, now available in Agent Preview. The team found the model is aware of its context window, which led to premature wrap-up behavior that they countered with repeated prompts and a 200k usage cap within a 1M token beta.
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The post explains which agent behaviors changed under Sonnet 4.5, such as context-window awareness and note-taking, that forced a rebuild rather than a simple model swap.
Source: Cognition Blog (Devin, Windsurf) · cognition.comPublished · added here