Meet Devin, the world's first AI software engineer that debugs, writes and deploys code

SWE-bench is a dataset that comprises 2,294 software engineering problems extracted from authentic GitHub issues and their corresponding pull requests from 12 famous Python repositories.

A software development assistant, Devin does more than just complete and suggest code. It can independently manage the whole process of creating and releasing whole software applications, in contrast to large language models (LLMs) like Google's Gemini or OpenAI's ChatGPT.

With its own code editor, command line, and browser, Devin works autonomously, systematically putting software into practice by segmenting work into manageable steps.

It has the capability of planning and executing complex engineering projects that involve hundreds to thousands of decision-making. Its AI assistant learns from its own experiences, can recall all relevant contexts, and even can fix its own mistakes.

In a demonstration provided by the firm, Devin shows off the system's capability to quickly resolve errors by adding a print statement when they arise.

Programmers can identify the exact location of a problem in their code by using the print statement, which is a line of code that outputs messages to the console. Devin and the user can also actively work together. It takes user feedback, provides real-time progress reports, and collaborates with the user on design choices as needed.

Moreover, the AI assistant can easily learn unfamiliar technologies in no time after reading articles online. It can train and fine-tune large language models by taking instructions from research repositories.