Goldman testing first autonomous coder called Devin, CNBC reports

Goldman Sachs (GS) is testing Devin, an autonomous software engineer from AI startup Cognition, and it is expected to soon join the ranks of the firm’s 12,000 human developers, Goldman tech chief Marco Argenti told CNBC, Hugh Son reports. “We’re going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin, which is going to be like our new employee who’s going to start doing stuff on the behalf of our developers,” Argenti said. “Initially, we will have hundreds of Devins that might go into the thousands, depending on the use cases,” he said.