What is Devin and can it really replace developers?

The release of the world’s “first AI software engineer” by Cognition has caused consternation, but should devs be worried?

Cognition, an applied artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory based in New York and San Francisco, caused a stir on March 12 when it posted a video demonstrating Devin, a generative AI tool claimed as the world’s first “fully autonomous AI software engineer.”

Devin is a large language model-based chatbot that takes simple text prompts and then talks through its plans on how to tackle the problem posed. It then builds a project using the tools typically used by human software engineers, including its command line, code editor, and a browser through which it executes code requests.

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