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by siliconc0w 775 days ago
This debunking video(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmgmwEtoWE) of Devin really questioned the usefulness for me. It created a file in the repo and spent a lot of time debugging its own unnecessary code rather than reading the Read Me to understand that the code it needed to use already existed and just needed to be run with different inputs.

It's not clear it we're even near a point where it can independently and meaningfully contribute to an existing codebase rather these greenfield demos. Feels similar to the self-driving AI hype where level 5 is still pretty far from realized (Waymo is closest but AIUI still uses a lot of remote human intervention).

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Waymo is definitely not the closest