Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new worker’

Cognition’s AI coding agent Devin has scored a serious buyer: Goldman Sachs, the financial institution’s CIO, Marco Argenti, advised CNBC.

“We’re going to start out augmenting our workforce with Devin, which goes to be like our new worker,” Argenti advised the outlet, including that it plans to roll out lots of of situations of Devin, probably rising to 1000’s. The financial institution at present employs round 12,000 human builders, it says. 

Regardless of the monetary business’s repute for being sluggish and stodgy, Goldman Sachs tends to be innovative, and it’s been internally utilizing developer copilots since a minimum of 2024, it stated.

Devin is an attention-grabbing selection. When Cognition launched it final yr, it blew up on social media. Some researchers then discovered that it struggled with extra complicated coding work.

As of Could, Devin is now on model 2.1, and Cognition says it performs finest on giant codebases that present it with ample context. 

Devin gained’t exchange people on the financial institution. Argenti advocates for a “hybrid” workforce, so situations of will probably be supervised by a human and, he hopes, enhance their productiveness.