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Devika

Published: 5th Apr, 2024

Devika

Context

In a significant development, Mufeed VH, an Indian developer, has introduced Devika, an open-source AI software engineer, challenging the position of Devin, hailed as the world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer.

About

Devika is an Agentic AI Software Engineer who can understand high-level human instructions, break them down into steps, research relevant information, and write code to achieve the given objective.
Devika aims to be a competitive open-source alternative to Devin by Cognition AI.

About Devin

Devin is the world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer.
Devin, which according to the start-up, is "a tireless, skilled teammate," is trained to perform a number of tasks, including building and deploying apps and finding and fixing bugs in codebases.
Besides this, the AI chatbot can recall relevant context at every step, learn over time, and fix mistakes.