Devin
The 'AI software engineer' that started the autonomous-agent race.
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Cognition's Devin (March 2024) demoed an agent that plans, codes, browses and deploys autonomously — igniting both hype and benchmark scrutiny. Cognition acquired rival Windsurf in 2025; enterprise teams now run fleets of Devins on backlog tickets.
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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.