Will AI replace software engineers?

Jacob Bennett
The Atomic Engineer
4 min readMar 15, 2024

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On Tuesday (March 12, 2024), Cognition Labs announced Devin, their AI software engineer.

Announcement by Cognition Labs (source)

Read the full announcement here →

The software eng world blew up immediately. Common sentiments included:

  • We’ll all be out of jobs soon! This is terrible!
  • We’ll all be out of jobs soon! Finally!

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