Cognition unveils neural network, which learns independently and can completely replace human programmers

The young American company Cognition has introduced the Devin project — a neural network capable of independently conducting the entire software development cycle. It's not just a primitive AI-based assistant for coding; it's a full-fledged software engineer capable of performing tasks as well as a human.

Devin, trained to reason, independently plans and implements software projects, making thousands of decisions as they progress. The AI learns, corrects errors, and adapts to the context. Cognition has equipped Devin with all the necessary developer tools for seamless integration into existing workflows. The company outlined the main capabilities of the neural network:

• Adaptation to new technologies: Devin quickly learns unfamiliar tools by simply reading the documentation.
• Comprehensive application development: The AI creates and deploys fully functional web applications, adding new features as user feedback is received.
• Autonomous error detection: Devin identifies, fixes, and debugs issues in the code, acting as a full-fledged project participant.
• AI training: The neural network installs and configures large language models based on instructions from research repositories.

Journalists from Bloomberg tested the new neural network and were pleased, noting that it is capable of much more than previous AI assistants for programmers. Devin created a full-fledged catalog website of Sydney restaurants for them with a simple text query.