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HOW COGNITION USES DEVIN TO BUILD DEVIN

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Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Cognition's Devin is a cloud agent platform for engineering teams. It acts like a teammate, handling tasks and creating PRs. Cognition uses Devin for tasks like targeted refactors, bug fixes, PR review, writing unit tests, modernizations and migrations, and more. As a general rule, if a junior engineer could figure it out with sufficient instructions, it's a task Devin can likely complete. However, Devin still struggles with large-scale challenges, UI aesthetics, mobile development, and anything requiring extensive testing and validation.