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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Linda Xie
@linda
3/ Second attempt: I asked Devin to add a banner to the landing page that probably would have taken me ~1-2 hours to add using Claude. Devin was able to submit a successful PR on its first attempt which I merged
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Linda Xie
@linda
4/ Third attempt: Gave Devin a task that would take me ~1-2 hours. This one required back and forth to get right. Undoing changes or making slight edits through Devin was time consuming and used up a lot of credits so in the future I'll make my own easy edits in parallel
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