[projectileboy]

I work with a team at Nubank that has been using Devin. I would say that it doesn't quite make sense to compare it to Claude 3.5, because Devin isn't really like Copilot; it's more like an assistant to which you can assign a project. We're using it only for particular use cases, but for those particular use cases it's like having a superpower.

[amkkma]

Based on this, what is the outlook for software dev generally, and junior and mid level devs?

[throw83288]

More specifically: What kind of advice does GP have for Computer Science students in school right now?

I've been frankly terrified of the pace of LLM development since 2022.

[servercobra]

Do you have any examples of the kinds of projects you would assign it to?

[Yusefmosiah]

The reason it makes sense to compare them is there are problems that Claude 3.5 (or o1) can’t solve. Can Devin solve them? If yes, it’s easily worth the $500. If no, it’s a harder sell.

[jonny_eh]

> We're using it only for particular use cases

Can you share concrete examples?

[projectileboy]

I can’t really be too specific. But I can say that at least one pattern of problem it tackles very effectively is: “we’re migrating from X to Y, and it’s going to touch a ton of files, and the nature of that migration is much more involved than what we can reasonably hope to accomplish with sed and a bash script.”

[anticensor]

I tasked Devin with writing a project proposal (in a topic I am not going to disclose here) with multiple documents including feasibility analysis, grant applications, legal analysis and post-implementation training materials and it was almost perfect at it.

[jonny_eh]

Amazing claims, if only it could be publicly shared and scrutinized.