Devin, an AI-powered software engineer capable of coding, building apps, is further profiled by Cognition Labs.

Devin, a progenitor Artificial intelligence (AI) model that can act as a software engineer was introduced by AI startup Cognition Labs. The company claims Devin has successfully passed practical engineering interviews with AI companies and even completed real jobs on Upwork. The AI ​​tool comes with its own shell, a code editor, and a browser for performing complex engineering tasks such as completing end-to-end coding projects, building and deploying websites, and Appsand even training and fine-tuning your AI models.

Cognition Labs unveils AI model Post X (formerly Twitter) and hailed him as “the first software engineer”. Announcing, the startup said, “Devin is a freshman on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews at leading AI companies, and even completed real jobs on Upwork. of.”

An AI model is equipped with its own shell or interface, an inbuilt code editor for writing and deploying codes, and a browser within a sandboxed computing environment that enables it to perform complex engineering tasks. In a ___ Blog post, the company deepened its capabilities. According to the post and several video demonstrations, Devin can learn to use unfamiliar technologies, build and deploy apps end-to-end, autonomously find and fix bugs in codebases, address bugs in open source repositories and Feature requests, can learn to contribute to mature production. repositories, and even training and fine-tuning its own AI models.

Additionally, Devin AI also scored 13.86% on the SWE-bench coding benchmark. Not only did it massively outperform other major AI models such as Claude 2 which scored 4.80% and GPT-4 which scored 1.74 percent, but the company claims it was able to resolve the issues without assistance. In particular, all other AI models were supported and told exactly which files needed to be modified.

While Cognition has made big claims, these cannot be verified at this time as the platform is not available in the public domain. The startup has also not released a detailed technical report on the AI ​​model, though it has said it will be released soon. However, if the claims are true, the Devine AI model has created a new standard in the AI-powered code generation space. So far, all coding-centric models are supportive in nature and can only perform tasks based on hints and limited capacity. Devin, however, can not only work autonomously but also manage end-to-end projects. The key question is whether it can replace a human software engineer or not.

Devin is currently in early access, but the developers have said that people hiring AI models for engineering work can access them.

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