Product Hunt Daily Digest
March 12th, 2024

GOOD MEWS

Happy Hump Day! The Product Hunt team hosted its latest demo night in partnership with Mercury and the GenAI collective. Expect a round-up soon of everything that happened, including some cool products that were demo-ed.

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🇪🇺 The EU AI act passed — here’s what will happen next.

📹 OpenAI is making Sora, its text-to-video modal, public later this year.

📚 Spotify Audiobooks is getting its own countdown feature.

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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT

This new product is like a fully-fledged, AI-powered software engineer

AI and coding kind of go hand in hand. For the past few years, developers and non-developers alike have used tools like ChatGPT and dedicated code copilots to help them quickly build features, sites, and even whole apps.

For the most part, it’s taken the dynamic of developer and AI developer assistants. But what if the student becomes the teacher, or in this case, the AI assistant becomes the developer?

That’s the idea behind Devin.

Devin is a fully-fledged, AI-powered software engineer from Peter Thiel-backed AI startup Cognition. While there’s no shortage of coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Devin takes it one step further, or maybe five, by being able to handle and ship entire projects, from setting up the structure, writing the code, fixing bugs, shipping updates, all on its own from start-to-finish.

How does it work? In the launch announcement, CEO Scott Wu explains how Devin can access some common developer tools, including its own code editor, shell, and even a browser within a sandboxed environment to plan and execute complex developer tasks.

Once you boot it up, you can type in a simple prompt using natural language, similar to other AI tools. From there, Devin gets to work by building a detailed, step-by-step plan to tackle the task. From there, it uses its own tools to start writing code, fixing bugs, commenting, and even testing and reporting on its progress. According to the demo, It can do things as simple as building a static site to things as complex as fine-tuning a large language model.

Of course, it’s not sentient — yet, so if you see something that doesn’t look entirely right, you can step in and give the AI a quick nudge in the right direction.

Devin is currently only available to a select few users as the company staggers the rollout, but I'd wager a bet that it won't be long before a general release

Check out Devin

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