A US-based AI lab, Cognition, has announced the launch of what it calls the world's first fully autonomous AI software engineer, named Devin.
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The new AI assistant could change the way code is written and the way apps are deployed.
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.
Devin is equipped with common developer tools including the shell, code editor, and a browser, and it can perform tasks independently.
Devin is a software development assistant in the vein of Copilot, which was built by GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI.