{"id":776698,"date":"2026-07-21T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776698\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:53:08","slug":"xbox-vp-leaves-just-3-months-after-joining-asha-sharmas-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776698\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox VP Leaves Just 3 Months After Joining Asha Sharma’s Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xbox VP of engineering Jared Palmer is leaving to join applied AI lab Cognition. You might be wondering \u201cWho is that?\u201d Good question. Palmer joined Xbox to help advise Asha Sharma directly on improving the platform\u2019s developer tools and infrastructure. He was named as part of her leadership team<\/a> during a management shakeup back in May. So why is he leaving only three months later?<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonal update: I\u2019ve joined Cognition to lead engineering,\u201d he announced on X today<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to Asha Sharma and everyone at Xbox for an amazing year. Excited for this next chapter with Scott Wu [Cognition cofounder and CEO] and team.\u201d Palmer, who only joined Microsoft\u2019s CoreAI team last October, didn\u2019t elaborate further on the reasons for change.<\/p>\n

Palmer was one of several people named in a memo to staff from Sharma back in May that laid out a series of personnel changes and promotions. She praised him as a \u201cproduct leader who understands modern development, including where tools can remove friction and help teams move faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cHe\u2019s spent his career building developer tools that remove friction and increase productivity. That\u2019s exactly the mindset we want, using technology to support creators.\u201d While a member of the engineering team, Palmer would report directly to Sharma, \u201cworking directly with me on our most complex product and engineering problems, with a focus on developer tooling, taste, and infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe those problems have already been fixed<\/a>. More likely, he received an offer he couldn\u2019t refuse from Cognition. The startup, which received $21 million in backing from Peter Thiel\u2019s\u00a0Founders Fund in 2024, is already valued at over $4 billion. It makes an AI coding tool called Devin. Apparently a lot more exciting than whatever Xbox\u2019s engineers are working on right now.<\/p>\n

Palmer previously<\/a> likened the shift from human programming to agentic software development to being like people learning how to play Guitar Hero instead of guitar. Palmer and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xbox VP of engineering Jared Palmer is leaving to join applied AI lab Cognition. You might be wondering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1281,74,1298],"class_list":["post-776698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-technology","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}