Meet Devin, the world’s first AI software engineer that debugs, writes and deploys code [Video]

US-based startup Cognition has launched Devin, an artificial intelligence (AI) software, to revolutionise the way code is debugged, written and deployed. The first of its kind, this AI assistant has the capability of taking a simple command and turning it into a functioning website or software program, Moneycontrol reported.

Cognition, backed by the Founders Fund, claims that the AI assistant has successfully passed several practical engineering interviews from the leading AI companies. Besides this, it has also completed real jobs on the freelancing platform Upwork.

Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-bench coding benchmark, the company said.

SWE-bench is a dataset that comprises 2,294 software engineering problems extracted from authentic GitHub issues and their corresponding pull requests from 12 famous Python repositories.

Devin: Understanding its capabilities

A software development assistant, Devin does more than just complete and suggest code. It can independently manage the whole process of creating and releasing whole software applications, in contrast to large language models …