- Published on March 13, 2024
- In AI Features
Are You Worried About Devin?
“We even tried giving Devin real jobs on Upwork, and it could do those too!”
Image by Diksha Mishra
- By K L Krithika
Devin, the world’s first AI software engineer, built by Cognition Labs, has taken the internet by storm. Backed by $21 million in funding from investors, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, the company is already grabbing attention for its AI assistant, Devin – godlike in English – who can handle entire software projects end-to-end.
While AI-assisted coding tools like GitHub Copilot have gained popularity, Devin stands out with its promise of completing full development projects independently. If successful, this could significantly impact the software development industry, potentially reducing the need for human developers on certain projects.
It also achieved 13.86% accuracy on the SWE-Bench benchmark that evaluates AI models on software engineering tasks. Res
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K L Krithika
K L Krithika is a tech journalist at AIM. Apart from writing tech news, she enjoys reading sci-fi and pondering the impossible technologies, trying not to confuse it with reality.
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