Is Devin the future of Coding?

Cognition AI says its Devin tool is a breakthrough in computer reasoning.

Members of the Cognition AI team in New York. Credit: Levi Mandel for Bloomberg Businessweek

Hey Everyone,

The real AI bros just keep getting younger this year as funding appears limitless for AI startups of this variety recently.

In 2024 we are seeing more AI startups and coding assistants/agents coming to market with demos suggesting they can do a lot of things. I first wrote about Devin here.

Is Devin just another agent-GPT or something more sophisticated? Many are saying it uses GPT-4, which seems likely to me.

Built by Cognition Labs, who were first backed by Peter Thiel is claming a viable coding assistant called Devin.

Generative AI has meant that we are seeing an increasing number of Chinese Americans and American educated Chinese found pretty fascinating startups. A lot of the builders and software engineers most interested in machine learning happen to be Asian. Open a random AI paper in 2024, and you will see what I mean.

Cognition Labs of course is making incredible claims like: “Devin can today in March, 2024 make thousands of decisions, recall relevant context, learn over time, and correct mistakes in code.”

The tool, called Devin, has rattled software engineers across the tech sector. and many are skeptical it’s much more than a GPT-4 skin.

• See Comments on Hacker News (527 so far).

• Software engineers sound skeptical on the whole.

To start using Devin for engineering work, please reach out here or get in touch at info@cognition-labs.com.