Introducing Devin, the First AI Software Engineer
BlogCognition AIJun 14, 2024
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Cognition's March 2024 launch post for Devin — the demo that made 'autonomous software engineer' a category. Devin plans, executes, browses, runs commands, and iterates on failures inside its own sandbox, with the user looking over its shoulder via a screen-share style UI. Even controversial in its claims, the post defined the autonomous-end of the harness spectrum (long-running, fully delegated) against which IDE-embedded harnesses (Cursor, Claude Code) get measured.
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