By Forbes
Published on March 15, 2024
A few days ago Cognition launched Devin, an AI agent that is capable of autonomously working through tasks that typically require a small team of software engineers to accomplish.
When it comes to forecasting, Roy Amara reminds us that people tend to overestimate the short-term impact of innovations while underestimating their long-term effects. However, with the advent of autonomous AI agents that are able to write code, test it and deploy it with a single prompt, it’s hard to see how we could be overstating the immediate consequences that follow.