Devin
Coverage of Devin in the Nexus archive.
- Goldman's engineers have a new challenge: turning AI agents into firm insiders
Goldman Sachs' chief information officer, Marco Argenti, noted that engineers now face the challenge of transferring 'tribal knowledge' into AI tools to make them Goldman-specific. With over 12,000 developers using agentic technology like Claude and Devin, the firm is creating specialized instructions called 'skills' to systematize unwritten corporate rules and standards. This constant process of improvement aims to help AI agents perform better by mimicking the knowledge of experienced employees.
- Man arrested following burglary in Smithfield
A man faces charges following a burglary that occurred in Smithfield on Monday. Police responded to the reported incident in the area of Astrid Street. During the investigation, detectives identified a suspect, which led police to obtain a search warrant and take 40-year-old Devin.
- ‘Devin-kun’: Japan embraces agents as legacy code and a shrinking workforce create a perfect market for an AI software engineer
Japan is rapidly adopting AI software engineers like Devin to address a shrinking workforce and aging digital infrastructure. Cognition AI, the developer of Devin, is expanding in Japan, where the government faces a projected shortage of 789,000 software engineers by 2030. Sapporo’s city government used Devin to modernize over one million lines of legacy code in a fraction of the usual time.
- Cognition's CEO says token spend leaderboards are 'directionally correct' — but some people get carried away
Cognition CEO Scott Wu criticized token spend leaderboards, arguing employees should be evaluated based on output rather than AI token usage. He highlighted Cognition's $26B valuation and its AI coding tool Devin, while other tech leaders like Legora's Jacob Lauritzen and Cerebras Systems' Andrew Feldman also decried tokenmaxxing as wasteful.
- Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans
Cognition's Scott Wu states that AI coding agents like Devin are not intended to replace human programmers. Devin is considered the first and most successful AI coding agent developed by Cognition.