Vibe coding, powered by AI coding assistants, transforms software development by accelerating prototyping, democratizing access and fostering creative flow. This shift redefines who can build software and reshapes essential engineering skills and education for future technology leaders and teams.

Devin is an autonomous AI engineer who acts like a trusted kitchen manager, handling the backlog, repetitive prep work and tasks that slow teams down, so human developers can focus on the highest-value engineering "dishes." Instead of just making individuals faster, Devin adds true parallel capacity by taking on delegated work from end to end. It understands codebases, completes tasks independently, and returns finished outputs, such as pull requests. In short, Devin is a new kind of teammate who helps organizations move faster and clear the work they've never had time to tackle.

Discover how Cognition's Devin and Windsurf redefine the software development lifecycle, balancing autonomous execution with human oversight to accelerate innovation, reduce risk and transform the enterprise workforce.

Legacy code modernization is now a strategic imperative, driven by technical debt and innovation demands. Devin, an autonomous AI, revolutionizes this process by compressing timelines, enhancing quality and freeing engineers for innovation. Enterprises must embrace AI-orchestrated modernization to stay competitive, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth and resilience.

In Part 2, we shift from strategy to execution. We open the hood on Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, and walk through its enterprise-ready workflow—from high-fidelity codebase analysis to automated refactoring, test creation, documentation and CI/CD orchestration—revealing how each step improves modernization predictability, auditability and operational scale for large organizations.