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Cognition CEO says autonomous AI Devin is not meant to eliminate human developers

Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which developed the AI coding agent Devin, said the tool is not intended to replace human developers but to raise their productivity. He said Devin aims to handle end-to-end development work and is most valuable for maintenance tasks developers tend to avoid. Wu also cautioned against inflated expectations, describing Devin as between junior and mid-level engineers, and stressed that humans must retain final decision-making authority.