Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?

19 points · vsroy · 3 days ago

I'm thinking of purchasing the Devin subscription, so I can give it screenshots of a web-app, and have it just implement the flows. But ... I don't know if it will be capable of doing so.

Has anyone used Devin for this type of thing?

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cheema33 · 3 days ago
I have not used Devin. But from what I gather from the reviews, Cursor + Composer/Agent will take you a little further than Devin will, for a lot less money. Neither will take you where you expect/want to be. You will still have to do some/a lot of the work yourself.
drudolph914 · 1 days ago
My team tried it, my conclusions were: - it took just as much prompting as a using an LLM to get simple tasks done - took many hours to come to wrong conclusions for simple problems - the examples in their site are definitely cherry picked
neom · 3 days ago

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csomar · 3 days ago
They are all wrappers around GPT-4/Claude. If you don't know what you and the AI is doing, you will not get anywhere. If you know what you are doing, you'll probably just use a regular editor with an AI auto complete.

https://github.com/stackblitz/bolt.new/issues

runjake · 2 days ago
For others, like me, who don't know what Devin is: Devin is apparently like GitHub Copilot and Cursor IDE.

https://devin.ai/