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The world’s ‘first AI software engineer’ isn’t living up to expectations: Cognition AI’s ‘Devin’ assistant was touted as a game changer for developers, but so far it’s fumbling tasks and struggling to compete with human workers

Devin, a coding assistant hailed as the world’s ‘first AI software engineer’, was given 20 coding tasks – it managed to complete just three, taking longer than expected and going down strange routes to achieve its goals. The AI coding tool, developed by Cognition AI, was hailed as a transformative solution to help streamline software development when it was unveiled…