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?
Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?
#2learn programming before using devin it doesn't make websites but just simple instructions, you need to know what you're making.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?
#3I 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.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?
#4I think https://www.tempolabs.ai/ (YC S23) might be closer to what you're looking for.
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#5Steve has a great review: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oU3H581uCsA
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#6The Primeagen had a stream to test it out where he found a pretty big security problem (that was fixed eventually)
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#7o1 pro is 10x better
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#8Claude w/ Aider will take you plenty far.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?
#9I 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.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?
#10They 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.