Devin

Devin is an AI software engineering agent created by Cognition to perform development tasks with a higher degree of autonomy than a traditional coding assistant.

Instead of only suggesting the next line of code, developers can assign Devin a task and allow it to work through multiple stages of the software development process. Devin can understand a task, explore a codebase, create a plan, modify files, execute commands, run tests and iterate on its work.

Devin also provides a cloud-based IDE where users can inspect its work and intervene when necessary. Teams can run multiple Devin sessions in parallel, making it useful for handling engineering backlogs and well-scoped development tasks simultaneously.

Cognition recommends use cases including fixing frontend bugs, creating first-draft pull requests for backlog items and carrying out targeted code refactoring. Devin can also work through integrations including its API and development-team workflows.

The product is therefore better categorized as an AI coding agent rather than simply an AI code-generation tool.