I am really excited to see a startup, built by mostly competitive programmers, launching a demonstration of which is the state-of-the-art.

You can watch their demo of Devin, the first AI software engineer, here

• https://twitter.com/cognition_labs/status/1767548763134964000

You can read the opinions of an external user who has early access here

• https://twitter.com/itsandrewgao/status/1767576901088919897

This is an article from Bloomberg (paywall)

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-12/cognition-ai-is-a-peter-thiel-backed-coding-assistant

These are the competitive programmers involved

• Neal Wu neal | IOI 3 Gold
• Scott Wu scott_wu | IOI 3 Gold
• Andrew He ecnerwala | IOI 2 Gold
• Steven Hao stevenkplus | IOI 1 Gold 1 Sliver
• Walden Yan walnutwaldo20 | IOI 1 Gold
• Adhyyan Sekhsaria AsleepAdhyyan | IOI 1 Silver

There have been many other startups that started much earlier in the year (and raised more money) trying to make AI agents work, but it is this team of mostly competitive programmers that has finally demonstrated an AI software engineer that actually works.