Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev? • Hacker News Board

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

#11

Post by uncomplexity_ » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 11:59 AM UTC

solardev wrote: post #9

neom wrote: post #4

I think https://www.tempolabs.ai/ (YC S23) might be closer to what you're looking for.

Is it normal that I can't scroll at all on either their homepage or their product hunt page? Other sites work fine. Using Chrome on Android with Adguard.

same here cant scroll

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

#12

Post by SixClub » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 2:32 PM UTC

uncomplexity_ wrote: post #11

solardev wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it normal that I can't scroll at all on either their homepage or their product hunt page? Other sites work fine. Using Chrome on Android with Adguard.

same here cant scroll

Hey fixing this right now!

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

#13

Post by solardev » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 2:48 PM UTC

SixClub wrote: post #12

uncomplexity_ wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

same here cant scroll

Hey fixing this right now!

Seems to work now! Cool product btw. Good luck on the launch :)

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

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Post by SixClub » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 3:54 PM UTC

solardev wrote: post #13

SixClub wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey fixing this right now!

Seems to work now! Cool product btw. Good luck on the launch :)

Thanks :) Our fancy draggable hero header didn't work on mobile. Fixed now haha

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

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Post by runjake » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 6:36 PM UTC

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

https://devin.ai/

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

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Post by drudolph914 » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 2:57 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by ltravis495 » Tue, Dec 24, 2024, 9:19 AM UTC

drudolph914 wrote: post #16

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

Thanks for the insights. I didn't think it would do better than other LLM but their Github issue stats were quite impressive. It's nice to see some real experience with it so we know its actual capability.