💬 Quoted… “Devin is a tireless, skilled teammate, equally ready to build alongside you or independently complete tasks for you to review.”

• This week, a startup called Cognition Labs emerged from stealth to unveil Devin, a programming tool it calls “the first AI software engineer” – and Devin’s human software engineer counterparts aren’t too happy with the news. Early reviewers of Devin say it can field requests in plain English, like building a website or figuring out a glitch, then deliver results in just a few minutes, with the ability to create and train its own little yellow minions AI systems to carry out tasks. Cognition says Devin can autonomously resolve ~14% of issues across a challenging benchmark of tests – almost triple the results from its AI competitors, including OpenAI’s GPT-4, Microsoft’s Copilot, Meta’s Llama, and Anthropic’s Claude.

👥📈 Stat of the Day: The country's top four fastest-growing metro areas over the past three years were all in Florida, according to US census figures released yesterday (Florida, man!). The Sunshine State’s population boom comes amid a broader influx of people moving to the South, while the West experienced a small – and slowing – population gain. In the Northeast and Midwest, immigration was the main factor behind slowing or reversing population losses in large metro areas, per a Wall Street Journal analysis.

🤔 Did You Know?... What’re friends for? Increasingly, buying houses. ~15% of Americans have purchased a home with a person other than their romantic partner, according to a recent report from JW Surety Bonds. And there’s lots of room for this arrangement to grow; the numbers could get higher than Shaggy and Scooby on the hunt for snacks. Over 6 in 10 Americans would co-buy a home with a friend, with Gen Z being the most willing (70%). The biggest driver of these shared purchases was affordability, with nearly 1 in 4 respondents who co-purchased a home with a non-romantic partner saying they couldn’t have afforded the purchase alone.

📰 Worth a Read: Why memory is more about your future than your past → (Big Think)