Goldman Sachs Is Testing Viral Ai Agent Devin As A ‘new Employee’

In Brief

Cognition’s AI coding supplier Devin has scored a awesome customer: Goldman Sachs, nan bank’s CIO, Marco Argenti, told CNBC.

“We’re going to commencement augmenting our workforce pinch Devin, which is going to beryllium for illustration our caller employee,” Argenti told nan outlet, adding that it plans to rotation retired hundreds of instances of Devin, perchance increasing to thousands. The slope presently employs astir 12,000 quality developers, it says. 

Despite nan financial industry’s estimation for being slow and stodgy, Goldman Sachs tends to beryllium cutting edge, and it’s been internally utilizing developer copilots since astatine slightest 2024, it said.

Devin is an absorbing choice. When Cognition released it past year, it blew up connected societal media. Some researchers past recovered that it struggled pinch much analyzable coding work.

As of May, Devin is now connected type 2.1, and Cognition says, performs champion connected ample codebases that supply it pinch ample context. 

Devin won’t switch humans astatine nan bank. Argenti advocates for a “hybrid” workforce, truthful instances of it will beryllium supervised by a quality and, he hopes, amended their productivity.

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