Devin building Devin

Cognition's team uses Devin across Slack, Linear, web, CLI and API to write, review, triage and debug code in its own codebase.

Resultrc_9KA5QVW4

Cognition merged 659 Devin-authored PRs into its own codebase in one week, up from 154 in its best week of 2025.

ShownBlog · Feb 27 · Last checked Oct 13, 2026

Overview

How it was set up

Repos added to Devin and indexed. Used via Slack, Linear/Jira tags, web app, with playbooks and MCP integrations such as Datadog, Sentry and Redshift.

Worth knowing

Written by the vendor about its own product; the post gives no detail on review effort or failure rates.

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Sources 1

Originalcognition.com/blog/how-cognition-uses-devin-to-build-devin

History

Source published: 2026-02-27
Added to Agentic Feats: 2026-10-13
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Markdown copy: /c/devin-building-devin.md

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