Cognition announced SWE-2 Flash on November 4, 2026, and reports that the coding model runs at three times the speed and one-fifth the price of its larger SWE-2 sibling. Available in Devin Desktop and CLI, it is aimed at routine software-agent work rather than uniform benchmark leadership. The intended jobs include automations, code review, feature development, and documentation updates, with free use offered through November 30, 2026. Flash has 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion…