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Cognition CEO Scott Wu says a quarter of Cognition's pull requests come from Devin -- and it'll be more than half by year-end. Each engineer runs up to five Devins at once. “Devin lets engineers go from bricklayer to architect.” The future of software isn't writing code -- it’s... show more

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