Devin

A startup company, Cognition, recently launched an artificial intelligence assistant called Devin, which is designed to assist software engineering teams with coding and other development tasks. Unlike existing AI coding assistants, Devin can be programmed to execute end-to-end software projects, including deploying applications, fixing bugs, learning new technologies, etc., while humans play a supervisory and guiding role. Devin can execute multi-step workflows based on user needs while keeping work on track. Engineers can observe its progress in real time and jump out of instructions to correct errors when they are found. This allows teams to outsource part of the work to AI assistants,…