Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?
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3 days ago
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I'm thinking of purchasing the Devin subscription, so I can give it screenshots of a web-app, and have it just implement the flows. But ... I don't know if it will be capable of doing so.

Has anyone used Devin for this type of thing?

cheema33
3 days ago
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I have not used Devin. But from what I gather from the reviews, Cursor + Composer/Agent will take you a little further than Devin will, for a lot less money. Neither will take you where you expect/want to be. You will still have to do some/a lot of the work yourself.
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drudolph914
1 day ago
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My team tried it, my conclusions were: - it took just as much prompting as a using an LLM to get simple tasks done - took many hours to come to wrong conclusions for simple problems - the examples in their site are definitely cherry picked
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neom
3 days ago
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I think https://www.tempolabs.ai/ (YC S23) might be closer to what you're looking for.
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solardev
3 days ago
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Is it normal that I can't scroll at all on either their homepage or their product hunt page? Other sites work fine.

Using Chrome on Android with Adguard.

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uncomplexity_
3 days ago
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same here cant scroll
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SixClub
3 days ago
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Hey fixing this right now!
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solardev
3 days ago
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Seems to work now! Cool product btw. Good luck on the launch :)
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SixClub
3 days ago
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Thanks :) Our fancy draggable hero header didn't work on mobile. Fixed now haha
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csomar
3 days ago
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They are all wrappers around GPT-4/Claude. If you don't know what you and the AI is doing, you will not get anywhere. If you know what you are doing, you'll probably just use a regular editor with an AI auto complete.

https://github.com/stackblitz/bolt.new/issues

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runjake
2 days ago
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For others, like me, who don't know what Devin is: Devin is apparently like GitHub Copilot and Cursor IDE.

https://devin.ai/

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miguelxpn
3 days ago
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The Primeagen had a stream to test it out where he found a pretty big security problem (that was fixed eventually)

https://youtu.be/927W6zzvV-c?si=uerRK1czUIGZbJBn

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toddmorey
3 days ago
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azlan692
3 days ago
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learn programming before using devin it doesn't make websites but just simple instructions, you need to know what you're making.
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fragmede
3 days ago
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Claude w/ Aider will take you plenty far.
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ldjkfkdsjnv
3 days ago
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o1 pro is 10x better
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