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title: Estimating the Productivity of an Autonomous AI Software Engineer
link: https://cognition.com/blog/ai-productivity
source: cognition
published: 2026-06-04T00:00:00Z
first_seen: 2026-09-02T14:07:29.769486161Z
summary: Engineering leaders want to know how much value AI is actually providing. We built a system that measures the number of human-equivalent hours of Devin's work.
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Engineering leaders want to know how much value AI is actually providing. We built a system that measures the number of human-equivalent hours of Devin's work.