Deployed Engineering at Cognition: Measuring Devin's Real-World Impact
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A measurement approach for coding-AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → ROI that avoids tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition →-usage vanity metrics: baseline the targeted work before activation and report the delta after, with value scaling non-linearly as adoption spreads.
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
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