Linda Xie
@linda
1/ My first attempt trying Devin ("collaborative AI teammate" for eng work) was a success My experience: We needed to make styling changes on Bountycaster based on user feedback. I talked to Devin over Slack using natural language and it shared the plan with me in an understandable way. Once I reviewed and confirmed it, Devin submitted a PR (~5 min). I asked Devin to make more changes once I saw how it looked locally. Devin wasn't able to figure out one of them but that was minor, then I merged the changes
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Linda Xie
@linda
2/ Context: I'm not a dev but have basic coding experience. I usually can handle basic styling changes on my own + Claude. Anything more complicated goes to my cofounder but he's solo dev so unless it's high priority, we have to backlog it Conclusion: Devin saved me significant time *as a non-dev* having to figure out how to implement the change using Claude or wait for my cofounder to implement it if I couldn't figure it out. I love that Devin has context over the entire codebase and it's easy to communicate through Slack using natural language. The price point of $500/month is high for our bootstrapped team. We'll continue to test and see devin.ai
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kia
@kia
where do you think the value prop was vs just using claude or cursor? is it the full integration, knowing where in your repo this needs to happen and making an actual pull request there?
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Linda Xie
@linda
Context on entire codebase
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