A months-old startup, Cognition AI, has made significant strides in AI-powered software engineering with the release of its advanced coding assistant, Devin, backed by $21 million from investors including Peter Thiel and Founders Fund. This AI tool, which has garnered attention for its ability to write entire programs autonomously, marks a potential shift in the software engineering landscape, with capabilities extending to debugging code, building out features, and deploying projects to the web. The development of Devin has been praised by various industry professionals, highlighting its potential to change the way software engineering is approached. This innovation comes amid broader discussions on the future of software engineering and the role of AI in automating not just coding, but potentially other skilled trades as well.
The demos presented by #Devin from @cognition_labs, are very impressive! That said, don't believe the hype that software engineers are dead. Treat devin like a Copilot on heavy steroids. You have to be extremely technical to understand everything it does. /1 https://t.co/0cIc5D0Q89
Did AI officially replace Software Engineers? Cognition has launched the most advanced autonomous coding agent. It can write entire apps on its own in a few minutes. 8 insane practical examples: https://t.co/NlQBQ1aNJ3
Meanwhile, developers are programming themselves out of a job. 🙃 I'm a little conflicted about this—I love code, and I love to program—but I also recognize the future might involve less writing code, and more 'steering' AI models toward actionable results. https://t.co/OHwoh23v5j
This CEO and his company Cognition released a Demo of their AI Developer called Devin yesterday and the incumbents and puritans are freaking out. Why? Because Devin is better. https://t.co/SAQvCbtUQ4
How AI has already changed coding forever https://t.co/X8ib2tl2pF
A couple notes from my @cognition_labs story today. I first met the CEO @ScottWu46 and his brother @WuNeal when they were teenagers in sport coding competitions. People talked about them with reverential awe. They helped make the US competitive against Russia, China and others.…
Admist speculation that AI is going to lead to mass unemployment, for now it has the opposite effect — pulling some of the most talented friends I have back into building. Congrats @lachygroom @brian_ichter @chelseabfinn @svlevine @hausman_k @QuanVng @SurajNair_1 on Pi! 🤖 https://t.co/A65FfI96Al
If AI replaces all junior software engineers, how do we get senior software engineers in the future? https://t.co/CqJsg1Oa0S
If you’re wondering how legit the Devin demo is, the Llama 2 benchmarking example from this video is a real prompt I tried a few weeks ago - and Devin nailed it in one shot. One of the coolest tools I’ve used in a long time. Big congrats to @cognition_labs team on the launch🔥 https://t.co/8SFAdXAUWS
Scott Wu (co-founder + CEO of Cognition Labs) https://t.co/AveMMqeKQ7
I agree with Andrej’s autonomous driving analogy for software engineering: Coordination, guardrails, integration, customization and feedback loops. Software engineering will morph into “supervised management” rather than engineering tasks, much like self-driving cars https://t.co/aoRgDFeHH7
If you could fully automate software engineering (my job), I think that would be great, since I could then move on to higher-leverage things. Making software is a means to an end, not the end (software is different from art in that sense). However I have not yet seen any signs…
I started learning to code *because* of AI. With AI. I’m 15 months in and sure I’m no rock star… but I ship apps, I iterate, I build, I learn. And with more AI tools I’ll do even more, and better and better. You can start today with AI and you’ll be an *AI native* coder. https://t.co/5i76yP3PKp
Congrats @ScottWu46 @walden_yan @WuNeal & team on building the first AI programmer, setting a new SWE-bench record, and closing a Series A — all within a couple months of starting Cognition It’s been an honor to work together. Thanks for pulling me in for a very fun collab, even… https://t.co/85lElXybD2
In case you were wondering just how cracked the team @cognition_labs is... This was the CEO (@ScottWu46) 14 years ago. https://t.co/UqXTYGVKzO https://t.co/6GgKQmE7Pm
Question: What role do software engineers play if AI can perform software engineering?
Hello world! We’re Physical Intelligence or Pi (like π).
3 of the 4 founders of Cognition have some variant of "human" engineer as their LinkedIn job title. And their goal is reasoning, not just a coder. Man, these guys really get it. @scottwu46 do you think the CEO role will always be human? :) @wuneal @walden_yan SH congrats https://t.co/3O5OxuHDzA
the future of AI x machines built by an incredible team! 🤖⚡️π thrilled for @Lux_Capital to partner with @lachygroom @chelseabfinn @svlevine @hausman_k @brian_ichter @QuanVng @SurajNair_1 + more :) https://t.co/8fgfBQO4za
Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them https://t.co/pNdxNKCauF
➡️ Coding made effortless! Gold-medalist coders develop an AI assistant that can do their job for them. Learn more about it here. https://t.co/J7xphHQT84
the future of AI x machines built by an incredible team! 🤖⚡️π thrilled for @Lux_Capital to partner with @lachygroom @chelseabfinn @svlevine @hausman_k @QuanVng @SurajNair_1 + more :) https://t.co/8fgfBQO4za
I’m really excited to be starting a new adventure with multiple amazing friends & colleagues. Our company is called Physical Intelligence (Pi or π, like the policy). A short thread 🧵
Since cat is out of the bag, it’s time I share: I’ll be starting a new adventure with an incredible team of friends and long-time collaborators to take on the big challenge of robot learning at scale! It's called Physical Intelligence (Pi… or π, like the symbol). 🧵👇
🚨 Big news 🚨 Together with a set of amazing folks we decided to start a company that tackles one of the hardest and most impactful problems - Physical Intelligence In fact, we even named our company after that: https://t.co/t0eFmHoro9 or Pi (π) for short 🧵
I'm starting a company with @brian_ichter, @chelseabfinn, @svlevine, @hausman_k, @QuanVng, and @SurajNair_1 called Physical Intelligence (π.com!). We're bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.
A months-old startup makes huge advances with an AI software development assistant https://t.co/SMFpSMJeHS
A months-old startup makes huge advances with an AI software development assistant https://t.co/1SplR0Ih3h via @BW
“Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them” Article: https://t.co/8sVav96SMh
Devin looks super cool but I gotta give it a try before judging its efficacy too fast. Hope I can get access from @cognition_labs so I can do an honest, unbiased review of the product here and on YouTube 🤞 https://t.co/UtvrXF4B3A
"software engineering is on track to change ... will look a lot more like supervising the automation, while pitching in high-level commands, ideas or progression strategies, in English" Don't be worried about AI writing code, be excited about much faster you can build. https://t.co/EKjATqlSM6
Hey @cognition_labs, would love to test Devin! Can anyone get me access?
AI will wipe out Jnr Software Engineers https://t.co/TLWUIm31mu
Congrats to the @cognition_labs team on today’s reveal! By far my favorite video that’s ever come up during founder diligence. Thanks for bringing me along again @ScottWu46 https://t.co/JmDgNOBj6C Skip to 0:47 and enjoy 2 min of internet gold.
this is not only how software engineering automation will happen, but many other trade skills that we can provably assimilate. "supervising the automation, while pitching in high-level commands, ideas or progression strategies" https://t.co/bKUeMiV5Yt
👀 World’s first AI software engineer builds a full-color Etch-a-Sketch editor with nothing but natural language prompts 🧵👇 1. It writes all the code 2. It intercepts errors, debugs code 3. It iteratively builds out features 4. It deploys it to web, provides a link @gdb @sama https://t.co/QTNhIys3lH
“software engineering is on track to change substantially. And it will look a lot more like supervising the automation, while pitching in high-level commands, ideas or progression strategies, in English.” I assume this will be true with most knowledge work in the years ahead. https://t.co/GnpahyO8Kh
# automating software engineering In my mind, automating software engineering will look similar to automating driving. E.g. in self-driving the progression of increasing autonomy and higher abstraction looks something like: 1. first the human performs all driving actions… https://t.co/u2EXfxcV6e
. @cognition_labs has singlehandedly saved my X feed from an endless loop of Dune content. Devin is seriously impressive, and the IQ of the founding team is astronomical. I remember being a (very average) 14 year old Bay Area mathlete and hearing the legend of Steven Hao
Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them #DisruptiveTech https://t.co/Lj4RtDG36z
We're on step closer to the future with what @ScottWu46 @cognition_labs are creating. Software engineering takes a level of precision beyond general LLM text generation and the demos look incredible. Every software team needs to use this asap lest you get left in the dust. https://t.co/xYxKjdZXwH
i never believe recorded demos so I reached out to the @cognition_labs team for early access to try for myself and got it! will be sharing my unfiltered opinions on #devin here. 🧵🧵 1/n https://t.co/fotGHh6KlU
Every once in a while you see an early product that is so obviously a window into the future. The @cognition_labs team is a new applied AI reasoning lab. Never met such a density of programming talent - let’s go @ScottWu46 @WuNeal @walden_yan Steven Hao, and of course, Devin! https://t.co/G6aXbStn5i
It’s going to be fun watching programmers have the total opposite reaction of artists to their field being automated. Sweet AI shoggoth, release us from the burden of writing yet another stupid CRUD app. https://t.co/mkjb26bmfR
It’s going to fun watching programmers have the total opposite reaction of artists to their field being automated. Sweet AI shoggoth, release us from the burden of writing yet another stupid CRUD app. https://t.co/mkjb26bmfR
Devin is single most impressive demo I've seen in the past decade. Worth a few minutes of your day to watch and get a glimpse of the future, it is surreal and deeply exciting. Proud of the @cognition_labs team (@ScottWu46, @tryramp alum @WuNeal, and many more!) https://t.co/Wyni7zWWCJ
This is one of the coolest products I’ve ever seen. @cognition_labs is building an AI software engineer (think pilot, not copilot) that actually works. Imagine being able to have your AI engineer work on fixing bugs in your sleep, or add a new feature, etc.! https://t.co/lbgEbqxdwO
Things are indeed about to get real, real weird. I spent the last couple of weeks using a coding assisstant AI that can create web sites, debug code and do massive coding jobs all on its own. It's name is Devin and it's backed by $21 million from Peter Thiel and others.…
Scoop: a start-up called Cognition AI has released what appears to be the most capable coding assisstant yet. Instead of just autocompleting tasks, it can write entire programs on its own. Is backed by Peter Thiel and Founders Fund, among others https://t.co/iRctE0KpWm
AI-powered software engineering helps us ship fast. With tools like @GitHubCopilot- thanks for featuring us! https://t.co/vfsLXz55Fx