Meet Devin from Cognition Labs.
Read more here: https://www.cognition-labs.com/blog
To the cynics, while this is a demo and there might be a lot more work to be done to get this product to "employee-grade", the fact that this has even started happening now... is crazy!
At this rate of progress, I wouldn't bet against a fundamental disruption to SWE as we today know it, within the next 5 years. That's food for thought for those in the profession: either you are in the top 20% or you are replaceable by AI agents like Devin.
And this is where legislation and politics will come into play.
Here's my rationale on all of it.
There’s a lot of buzz about “AI developers” in the tech world. Headlines shout that the days of human coders are numbered—a tantalizing, but dubious claim.
Startups like Magic.dev are raising heft...
