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After the Windsurf-to-Devin-Desktop rebrand, Cognition now includes Devin Review at no extra cost, in a fast PR-scan mode and a deeper reasoning mode, paired with Spaces for shared agent context (Devin). Existing Windsurf installs got it as an over-the-air update with plans and keybindings carried over. Bundling review into the base tier is a bet that AI code review becomes table stakes, not an upsell.
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Cognition shipped an over-the-air update on June 2 that rebranded Windsurf to Devin Desktop and auto-ported everyone's settings (Devin/Cognition). Cascade, the agent a lot of people actually chose Windsurf for, is deprecated. End of life July 1, 2026. In its place: Devin Local...
I opened my editor expecting an editor. What I should have expected, after the June 2 OTA update, was a Kanban board. Cognition pushed an over-the-air update that reopened Windsurf as Devin Desktop. Not a rebrand. A reframe. The thing is no longer "an editor with AI bolted on,...
Devin Desktop's Spaces and Cursor's Mission Control both point at the same shape: instead of each agent rebuilding context cold, a persistent shared layer holds repo index, current PR, files, and prior session state for every agent assigned to it (Devin). This shifts multi-age...
SWE-2 posted September 10 ("pushing the Pareto frontier of capability and inference cost" across effort levels), Fusion in Devin Desktop and CLI on September 11, then Devin Voice on Product Hunt the same day at #8 with 120 votes under "You say it, Devin ships it." Devin Voice...
Per AIToolTier, Windsurf has folded into the Devin agent brand as Devin Desktop, shifting from editor-with-agents toward an agent-first desktop product. More consolidation in the AI-IDE space. If you standardized workflows on Windsurf, expect branding, pricing, and feature rea...
July releases let you configure a default model per subagent, warm the MCP registry cache during startup so servers are ready sooner, surface Devin ACU usage in the client, and add an attribution flag to suppress Devin mentions in commit messages. On Windows, bash now resolves...
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