The world of AI is being filled with lots of new AI software everywhere. Devin, developed by a US-based applied AI lab, Cognition AI is another one in the vast world of generative AI. Devin is an autonomous agent that solves engineering tasks with its own shell, code editor, and web browser, as per the company.
In a video, Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition AI, shows how Devin takes the driver seat and attempts to solve problems. One can also send their project ideas to the company, and they will be forwarded to Devin, he adds.
“Devin has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies and has even completed real jobs on Upwork,” mentions the company.
When assessed using the SWE-Bench benchmark, Devin accurately resolves 13.86 per cent of the issues without assistance, surpassing the previous best model's performance of 1.96 per cent unassisted and 4.80 per cent assisted, says the company.
“SWE-bench is a benchmark for evaluating large language models on real-world software issues collected from GitHub,” says GitHub.
“Devin is a tireless, skilled teammate, equally ready to build alongside you or independently complete tasks for you to review,” reads a blog post from the company.
The company claims Devin can do diverse work, from addressing bugs and feature requests in open-source repositories to training and fine-tuning its own AI models. It can also debug codes to run via a computer vision model.
A very important feature of Devin is that it doesn’t make mistakes while writing codes, which we humans are capable of. So, precision and uniformity in coding are something that will be available for one.
However, the technical details of the AI model backing Devin are something that the company hasn’t delved much into. Other AI models that help in coding include GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, OpenAI Codex, Sourcegraph Cody, and CodeWP. With AI delving into every field, there is always a persistent fear about it replacing jobs. An IMF report says that 40 per cent of jobs around the world will be affected because of AI.
There are also some who believe that AI will just be a catalyst for human progress. Dr Yann LeCun, Turing Award Laureate and Vice President, said that AI will not replace humans in skills such as managing and analysing, as per a Times of India report.
