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Cognition emerges from stealth to launch AI software engineer Devin
In the SWE-bench test, Devin was able to correctly resolve 13.86% of GitHub issues without any assistance, performing far better than GPT-4.
The announcement of Devin marks a significant shift in the AI-assisted development space, giving engineers a full-fledged AI worker for their projects, rather than a copilot that could merely write barebones code or suggest snippets. The human user simply types a natural language prompt into Devin’s chatbot style interface, and the AI software engineer takes it from there, developing a detailed, step-by-step plan to tackle the problem. While the tool remains to be tested, its ability to handle multiple steps – while staying on track – to complete a software engineering project is the biggest unique selling point.
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