Cognition (Devin)
The company building the autonomous coding agent Devin
United States Startup Closed
WHAT IT IS
Cognition was founded in 2023 and develops the autonomous coding agent Devin. Given a task, Devin plans its own steps, writes code, runs and debugs it, aiming to complete development tasks end to end.
Why it matters
Devin put "an agent completing an entire programming task on its own" forward as a product goal, becoming one of the starting points of 2024’s autonomous-agent discussion.
Key milestones
- 2023
Founded
- 2024
Released the autonomous coding agent Devin