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[–] mii@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Remember Devin, the AI coding bot that turned out to be a complete scam?

Well, looks like Goldman Sachs decided to let it loose on its code base. In YOLO mode too, it seems.

[–] dovel@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

Devin will be supervised by human employees and will handle jobs that engineers often consider drudgery, like updating internal code to newer programing languages, he said.

Good luck to the workers having to debug that shit.

Goldman is the first major bank to use Devin, according to Cognition, which was founded in late 2023 by a trio of engineers and whose staff is reportedly stocked with champion coders.

Being good at Codeforces contests surely translates to any other domain. I expect the Cognition guys to fully deliver on their promises.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would be really funny if Devin caused a financial crash this way

Total fucking Devin move if you ask me.