Fix a production boolean-flag bug with Devin
A reviewer had Devin fix a bug on a production site; it returned a PR in about ten minutes but included unrelated changes like removing a safeguard check.
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26 workflows that use Devin for software & devops work. Cognition's autonomous software engineer.
A reviewer had Devin fix a bug on a production site; it returned a PR in about ten minutes but included unrelated changes like removing a safeguard check.
Original post ↗An engineer had Devin implement a deals page in steps; it opened a PR in under 10 minutes, but CI failed, it added unnecessary changes and gave a false answer about a library.
Original post ↗A user had Devin update a page listing AI coding CLI tools; it opened a PR in 5 minutes, but a separate task needed much back-and-forth to find all files.
Original post ↗Lumos used Devin for routine tasks like MUI-to-Tailwind conversion, which went well, and its unit-test feedback loop reduced rewrites.
Original post ↗Sid Nanda's company uses Devin in Slack to triage feedback, turn user issues into PRs, debug async flows and infra read-only, and let non-technical staff coauthor PRs.
Original post ↗Ryan Carson uses Devin from iPhone, Slack, browser, GitHub and Linear for real work and reports higher PR shipping velocity.
Original post ↗Ryan Carson uses Devin's Test App feature to record and narrate feature clicks, fix bugs, and merge PRs with a !land command.
Original post ↗Cognition's Jared Zoneraich uses Devin fan-out so child agents work in parallel on a migration split into six pieces.
Original post ↗bnistordev connected Devin to a Figma file via MCP and had it build an entire WordPress marketing site overnight.
Original post ↗A review lists Devin building a full-stack to-do app, debugging a public repo with a PR, and doing Docker setup, deployment and CI/CD.
Original post ↗A backend engineer says their team uses Devin for internal dashboards and migration scripts, treating output as a starting point that saves about four hours of boilerplate.
Original post ↗Answer.AI tried Devin on an observability integration, an nbdev migration and a vulnerability review; it found some real issues, hallucinated others, and failed the migration.
Original post ↗In a vendor launch demo, Devin built an interactive Game of Life website, added requested features step by step, and deployed it to Netlify.
Original post ↗Neon's docs team has Devin create the weekly changelog from a playbook and open or revise doc PRs from GitHub issues, for repetitive work only.
Original post ↗Founders report Devin touching all PRs at ChatPRD and being Gumroad's top contributor with over 1,500 merged PRs.
Original post ↗Scott Wu had Devin build and deploy a mobile-friendly React quiz from a TSV of speaker names and photos, plus a QR-code site to share it.
Original post ↗Cognition staff assign Devin work in Slack or Linear; it posts PRs, fixes bugs flagged by review bots and works CI and lint failures until checks pass.
Original post ↗The author had Devin build and deploy an app, finding it quick on PR feedback but weak on legacy monorepos and costly on broad requests.
Original post ↗With computer use, Devin built and played a desktop game, ordered on Amazon, and tested its own work by clicking through the app.
Original post ↗Kearney gave Devin repo access to migrate a production Electron app to Vue 3 and update npm packages, committing after every five components.
Original post ↗Devin opened a PR with the endpoint and backend wiring that was merged, but missed API key logic, code style and abstraction, needing review fixes.
Original post ↗A reviewer had Devin set up a project, write code, install dependencies, test endpoints and add error handling in about 4 minutes on a simple task.
Original post ↗A team used Devin for a month on small fixes like chart formatting and API edge cases, with tests and PRs; a complex full-stack task went poorly.
Original post ↗A tester asked Devin to create a basic Pong-style game and a website, and it finished both in under 20 minutes.
Original post ↗Answer.AI testers found Devin completed only 3 of 20 tasks, succeeding at moving Notion data to Google Sheets and building a planet tracker.
Original post ↗Devin scanned a rearchitected codebase and delivered a new README as a PR with accurate setup and API details, but struggled with design rationale and purpose.
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