Goldman Sachs plans to augment its workforce with Cognition's AI coding agent, Devin, starting with hundreds of instances, potentially increasing to thousands. The bank currently employs around 12,000 human developers. Devin, despite its initial social media success after its release last year, exhibited challenges with complex coding tasks. As of May, Devin is on version 2.1 and is most effective with large codebases. Goldman Sachs promotes a hybrid workforce approach, where Devin will be supervised by humans to improve productivity.
"We're going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin, which is going to be like our new employee," Argenti told the outlet, adding that it plans to roll out hundreds of instances of Devin, potentially growing to thousands.
Devin is an interesting choice. When Cognition released it last year, it blew up on social media. Some researchers then found that it struggled with more complex coding work.
As of May, Devin is now on version 2.1, and Cognition says, performs best on large codebases that provide it with ample context.
Argenti advocates for a 'hybrid' workforce, so instances of it will be supervised by a human and, he hopes, improve their productivity.
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