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Cognition unveils Devin, billed as the first AI software engineer

Devin unveiled, billed as the first AI software engineer

Why it matters

Announced 13.86% on SWE-bench, saying it beat the previous SOTA of 1.96% by more than 7×

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Officialcognition.comhttps://cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin

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