Will Devin Replace Software Developers? Introducing Devin: The AI Software Developer
Devin AI: What is it capable of?
The company told us:
Devin is a tireless, skilled teammate, equally ready to build alongside you or independently complete tasks for you to review.
What Devin can do?
- can build and deploy apps - end to end
- can find and fix bugs in codebases
- given just a link to a GitHub issue, Devin does all the setup and context gathering that is needed
- Devin sets up the code environment, reproduces the bug, and codes and tests the fix on its own
But there is one more skill that probably interested everyone the most..
- Devin can do real jobs on Upwork
so now everyone is wondering if Devin can really replace developers? Though not everyone was impressed, one user pointed out that the startup used Google Forms for its onboarding, instead of using Devin to create one...
Real-World Goal
With Devin, engineers can focus on more interesting problems and engineering teams can strive for more ambitious goals.
Is Devin better than others Models?
Devin has been tested on SWE-bench, Cognition assessed Devin's performance on SWE-bench, a benchmark designed to challenge agents with problem-solving tasks commonly encountered by software engineers in open-source projects. Let's take a look on results.
Devin correctly resolved 13.86% of issues end-to-end triumph over other models. Imagine the possibilities how this diagram would evolve with the inclusion of results from GPT-4.5 Turbo. This is merely the inception of a thrilling journey ahead.
Who Stands Behind Devin?
A US-based startup Cognition has introduced Devin.
It's small not even heard before startup that raised a $21 milion dollars by Founders Fund. For now their announcement post on X has gather 28.5M views. The comments section is varied, but numbers say a lot.
How to Access Devin?
For now Devin is not available for use. For those that are interested to explore Devin can request access to Devin here.
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