# How Mercedes Benz uses Cognition

**eight days**: “cut modernization time down from an estimated eight months to eight days”

As published on [cognition.com](https://cognition.com/blog/mercedes-benz-cognition), April 2026. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-09.

- Company: [Mercedes Benz](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/mercedes-benz.md)
- Tool: [Cognition](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/cognition.md)
- Industry: [Automotive Manufacturing](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/automotive-manufacturing.md)
- Teams: R&D, IT, Engineering

## What the story says

Mercedes-Benz deploys Devin, Windsurf and Devin for Terminal across its global R&D and IT engineering teams for software development, asynchronous engineering workflows and complex engineering tasks, including analyzing legacy COBOL code for modernization.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Cognition and Mercedes Benz, not ours.

> In an initial four-week pilot, both Devin and Windsurf demonstrated significant productivity gains. For example, Devin analyzed over 200,000 lines of COBOL code and cut modernization time down from an estimated eight months to eight days.

- **200,000 lines**: “Devin analyzed over 200,000 lines of COBOL code”
- **four-week**: “In an initial four-week pilot, both Devin and Windsurf demonstrated significant productivity gains.”

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-09.

- Checked: the figure eight days is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Mercedes Benz.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Mercedes Benz.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Mercedes Benz uses Cognition. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-09.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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