Management Sea Change: AI Autonomous Programmers Are Here Now

This past week a seismic shift has taken place in computer science: Cognition AI introduced Devin, the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer. From a single prompt, Devin is able to plan, research APIs, design, code, test, remediate, and deploy software solutions independently. It is able to actively collaborate with users during software development by providing real-time progress updates, accepting feedback, and working together to make design choices. Products that would take human developers many hours to deliver, can be done in mere minutes. [ Video , Forbes , AI Business , Infoworld ] For organizations, the speed and efficiency improvements of employing software engineering AI agents will be critical for maintaining international market competitiveness and accelerating new strategic digital opportunities. And to do so, organizations will need product software engineering managers who are able to effectively leverage and manage new software engineering AI agents....