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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.

• 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.