Meet Devin: World’s 1st fully autonomous AI software engineer and here's what it can do

A US-based company called Cognition has announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence chatbot called Devin which it claims to be world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer.

Cognition calls it a "tireless, skilled teammate" that can "equally ready to build alongside you or independently complete tasks for you to review".

"With Devin, engineers can focus on more interesting problems and engineering teams can strive for more ambitious goals," it added.


What it can do?

Devin can plan and execute complex engineering tasks requiring thousands of decisions, the company claimss.

Devin can recall relevant context at every step, learn over time, and fix mistakes.

"We've also equipped Devin with common developer tools including the shell, code editor, and browser within a sandboxed compute environment—everything a human would need to do their work. Finally, we've given Devin the ability to actively collaborate with the user. Devin reports on its progress in real time, accepts feedback, and works together with you through design choices as needed," Cognition added.

As per the company, "Devin correctly resolves 13.86%* of the issues end-to-end, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art of 1.96%. Even when given the exact files to edit, the best previous models can only resolve 4.80% of issues."