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DEVIN: the only developer we all are afraid of 😀

shrey vijayvargiya on March 19, 2024

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András Tóth • Mar 20

If it all falls down I have a couple of guesses what will happen:

the bosses who were frustrated that their devs were not doing what was asked will realize that even AI cannot produce anything useful from contradictory requirements
if managers can automate software engineering, software engineers can also automate managers; if there will be an actual force multiplier out there, there will be crazy amount of competition as you will now have much lower financial barrier to enter the market with a good idea
I also have a feeling that there will be companies that will go all-in with these tech only to realize that the code have weird bugs and they have nobody to debug, refactor and rationalize the codebase

Just like images generated, there will be weird glitches, topics that the AI will have problems with and so on.

GP • Mar 25

The major difference between AI and Human is that AI don't have emotions and sentiments. They can only give basic structure or a template, for the rest of it, human touch is required. We need to learn to adopt them in best possible way than just ignoring it. For example we at our organization use GitHub copilot chat to generate unit test case for react components and update the generated code to our requirement. This saves us lot of time in writing everything from scratch.

Shrijal Acharya • Mar 20

@latobibor Totally agree, especially with the third point. I would never believe AI-written code to be production-ready any day soon!

András Tóth • Mar 20

Especially how often I run into fake functions that AI just cooked up as existing in a library, or how I get the same bad results from stackoverflow about some Date edge-cases.

I don't need help with the code I can write, but the one I can't the tools so far all also failed with it as well.

Shrijal Acharya • Mar 21

I don't need help with the code I can write, but the one I can't the tools so far all also failed with it as well.

For now, it is only 13% as efficient as most developers. There's still much room for improvement. We cannot expect much. Currently, I would say it's just another AI startup that has a lot to achieve in a shorter time, or else it's going to vanish.

shrey vijayvargiya • Mar 20

I agree but another school of though to be add here is that currently it can resolve 13% as claimed and in future it might do more than 50% of the work

sectasy • Mar 19

I don't believe DEVIN is something to fear. Take a glance at their page. They're simply another startup aiming to carve out a portion of the AI market and attract investors for financial gain.

shrey vijayvargiya • Mar 19

Yeah, I think the same!!

Mr. Linxed • Mar 20

I feel like Evan You (Creator of Vue) summed it up pretty well.

shrey vijayvargiya • Mar 20

My doubt is that it is 13% at the current time, what will be this percentage in 5 years down the line?

Best Codes • Mar 20

Not much higher. Until we make an AGI, AI can only be so smart. It relies on humans for training and input or it doesn't learn.

RedbeardJunior • Mar 26

I'm not afraid like I tell people many times, that in the next 20–40 years it will not make any secure code.

A human with the help of AI and a brain full of knowledge is much more valuable than Devin.

If you're afraid and stop coding, you are shortening yourself; it will not replace a coder who is going to code a new code language with a better future. An AI that is a prompt of combination ?

I think I'm the few that see that AI is not there yet and will take 30–40 more to get it there, given the effort and the money that will put in there.

Don't only rely on a prompt of spitting out unsecure code, think and involve yourself in becoming a better coder and human.

ThedaChaleun2125 • Mar 24

this is scary