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Devin Ships Code Scans, Turning a Vague Engineering Objective Into Merged Pull Requests With a Claimed 96% Merge Rate at Philips
Cognition announced Code Scans on September 16, a Devin feature that takes a broad engineering objective, investigates the codebase for opportunities, and opens pull requests against what it finds. The disclosed results are unusually concrete for this category: a Philips team reported a 96% PR merge rate and over 700 engineering hours saved during testing, a Rust compilation scan cut clean debug build time from 58.6 seconds to 21.0 seconds, and an SEO scan moved an Ahrefs health score from 87 to 92 and cut slow pages 73% on another domain. No pricing, false-positive rate or competitive positioning against SonarQube, Snyk or CodeQL is disclosed, which is itself informative about how the category is being framed.
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