6 ms·
What the hell happened to Devin AI?
why do you think they couldn't capitalize more on the hype?
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoI have not followed them but I got the impression that AI simply doesn’t do what they said theirs could do.
- isaiahwp 2y agoI guess same as Humane Pin/Rabbit R1. Got a lot of hype then faded into obscurity.
- mnk47 2y agoThe founder was featured in the o1 release promotional videos. Looks like he had an early access deal with OpenAI and now he's working on upgrading Devin
- journal 2y agoIt made no sense. If openai is the best, how can anything be better? Wouldn't openai done it first? If they could it should have been obvious they could make a better thing. Devin is just refined snakeoil. Bigger question is, how did they get some of you to buy it?
- Pinkthinker 2y agoMost likely OpenAI would have done it first, that is assuming that LLMs are the answer. But LLMs can never be the answer since they rely on ambiguously worded free-form text written by humans. Try writing software to price a derivative that way. The only way that a computer will write accurate reliable software is if it’s given clear and precise instructions. No current tool will do that. The answer will come from outside the usual suspects.
- segmondy 2y agoThe idea behind Devin is an agent, folks can build better/smarter AI on top of OpenAI's models.
- authorfly 2y agoWhat do agents allow you to do that if, else, for and while statements with a database of LLM responses don't out of interest?
- jaredsohn 2y agoThe last thing I saw on it was a video saying that calling Devin an AI software engineer that does Upwork tasks is a lie based in what was shared in an earlier video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmgmwEtoWE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmgmwEtoWE "I broke down the Devin Upwork video frame by frame, and here I show what Devin was supposed to do, what it actually managed to do instead, and how bad a job of that it did. On the whole that's not surprising given the current state of Generative AI, and I wouldn't be bothering to debunk it, except: 1) The company lied about what Devin could do in the video description, and 2) a lot of people uncritically parroted the lie all over the Internet, and 3) That caused a lot of non-technical people to believe that AI might replace programmers soon. "
- throwaway48540 2y agoIt's not just non technical people. Even programmers around me are worried. Some think AI will replace programmers soon, some think partially, mostly everybody thinks that a lot of stuff will change soon. I am personally not worried. Any outcome is great. Either I keep a well paid job and it becomes even more well paid, or AI is so good that there aren't any jobs at all anymore, which sounds good too. Let's define soon - I understand it as "within a decade or so" in this context.
- Pinkthinker 2y agoI’m pretty sure that LLMs will never replace programmers. It’s way too hard to stitch together code snippets. Also, when you think about all the misunderstandings that arise from pseudo code, free form text input to an LLM has to be even more ambiguous. I don’t care whether someone calls themselves a “prompt engineer”. But AI will replace programmers just like it superseded chess players. We are putting the finishing touches to an AI that write code. And not in an LLM kind of way. It allows you to specify exactly what you want without needing to specify the logic. Check out Ac28R.com We are excited about it, but it makes my heart ache when I think about the impact. The world is speeding up. We are the cause but we will struggle to avoid getting swept up in it.
- vunderba 2y ago
- alexander2002 2y agoI have noticed growing cringe on youtube shorts hyping ai products/founders 1)https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j2AwScMSrRA https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j2AwScMSrRA
- geophph 2y agoThe company is still hiring software engineers so clearly the version of SWE that Devin “is” isn’t quite good enough.
- GoldenMonkey 2y agoman, that would suck. To build devin to replace yourself. Hope the equity is worthwhile.
- shahbaby 2y agoNon-technical people are about to find out that software engineers were not kidding when they said that writing out code is actually the easy part.