Research & Knowledge
Try Devin on research tasks (mostly failed)
Answer.AI had Devin fetch an author's recent papers and research transcript summarization; it got stuck parsing HTML and returned generic results, rated a failure.
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Use cases with Devin
Software & DevOps
Write, review and document code across a product's PRs
Founders report Devin touching all PRs at ChatPRD and being Gumroad's top contributor with over 1,500 merged PRs.
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Software & DevOps
Build a name-and-face quiz site from a spreadsheet
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.
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Software & DevOps
Build and deploy an app over a weekend
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.
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Work & Operations
Surface unanswered emails from the past week
Author had Devin build a Gmail API assistant that lists unanswered emails from the past week, since Attio lacks that tab; he wrote the auth part himself in Cursor.
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Games & Simulations
Build a chess game against a language model
An early tester asked Devin to build a chess game against a language model; it made good progress but eventually hung.
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Software & DevOps
Turn Slack and Linear tasks into PRs and fix CI
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.
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Work & Operations
Turn Notion PRDs into scoped Linear tickets
Devin's docs describe reading a Notion PRD to create Linear tickets, producing implementation plans for a backlog, and posting customer health summaries to Slack.
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Software & DevOps
Click through apps to verify its own work
With computer use, Devin built and played a desktop game, ordered on Amazon, and tested its own work by clicking through the app.
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Software & DevOps
Migrate an Electron app from Vue 2 to Vue 3
Kearney gave Devin repo access to migrate a production Electron app to Vue 3 and update npm packages, committing after every five components.
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Software & DevOps
Add a third-party API integration via Devin PR
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.
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Software & DevOps
Build and test a simple endpoint project with Devin
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.
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Software & DevOps
Hand narrow code changes to Devin for pull requests
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.
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Work & Operations
Answer data questions and build dashboards from the warehouse
Cognition's team uses a Devin variant called DANA to query their data warehouse, build dashboards and answer data questions, and Devin fills out report forms.
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Software & DevOps
Build a Pong game and website from scratch
A tester asked Devin to create a basic Pong-style game and a website, and it finished both in under 20 minutes.
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Software & DevOps
Test Devin on pulling Notion data into Sheets
Answer.AI testers found Devin completed only 3 of 20 tasks, succeeding at moving Notion data to Google Sheets and building a planet tracker.
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Content & Creative
Explore code to write technical documentation
A technical writer uses Devin to explore code before documenting it, plus a Slack writing agent built on Devin, reporting about 20,000 lines of docs per month.
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Software & DevOps
Rewrite a README after a rearchitecture
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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