AI 'Engineer' Devin Stuns in Interviews and Fixes Code, Worrying Software Developers About Job Security
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Cognition Labs created "Devin," an AI that can supposedly build and deploy apps, find and fix bugs, and complete engineering tasks. It passed interviews at AI companies.
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Devin was able to fix 13.86% of issues in open-source GitHub projects unassisted, much higher than previous AI models. Cognition credits its reasoning abilities.
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The startup wants Devin seen as a skilled teammate to work alongside engineers, not replace them. But its release still worries engineers.
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Many engineers feel their jobs are threatened by AI as tech companies push for greater efficiency, reviving the "10x engineer" concept.
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If AI can prove closer to a 10x engineer than humans, it may take software engineering jobs - threatening the jobs of its own creators.