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

21 points by vsroy 1 year ago | 16 comments

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?

cheema33 1 year 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.

neom 1 year ago |

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

solardev 1 year ago | |

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.

uncomplexity_ 1 year ago | | |

same here cant scroll

drudolph914 1 year 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

ltravis495 1 year ago | |

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.

csomar 1 year 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

miguelxpn 1 year ago |

The Primeagen had a stream to test it out where he found a pretty big security problem (that was fixed eventually)

https://youtu.be/927W6zzvV-c?si=uerRK1czUIGZbJBn

runjake 1 year ago |

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

https://devin.ai/

toddmorey 1 year ago |

Steve has a great review: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oU3H581uCsA

azlan692 1 year ago |

learn programming before using devin it doesn't make websites but just simple instructions, you need to know what you're making.

fragmede 1 year ago |

Claude w/ Aider will take you plenty far.

ldjkfkdsjnv 1 year ago |

o1 pro is 10x better