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Re:Devin, the First AI Software Engineer by Bjorkbat on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @12:21PM (#39681335)
I mean, this might just be existential cope, but my first thought when looking at the Upwork demo posted on Twitter (https://x.com/cognition_labs/status/1767548768734294113?s=20) was that it seemed a little bit suspicious.

Namely, the client was asking for an unusually specific (for Upwork) ask. It was an almost perfect example of a job to be given to an AI agent for testing purposes.

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Re:Devin, the First AI Software Engineer by swalsh on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @12:45PM (#39681673)
You're looking at the worst version that will ever be released. If these guys don't get better over time, someone else will.
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Re:Devin, the First AI Software Engineer by ukuina on Sunday March 17, 2024 @10:43AM (#39734792)
Cue Microsoft AutoDev.
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Re:Devin, the First AI Software Engineer by HanClinto on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @01:05PM (#39681979)
I tend to agree.

I really want to see what this does with an open-source backlog. The more mundane (yet critical) of a project, the better.

What would be good projects to feed it? I suggested Mozilla and llama.cpp, but there's got to be something better as a use-case for it.

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Re:Devin, the First AI Software Engineer by dustyharddrive on Saturday March 16, 2024 @10:26PM (#39731400)
Using this on memory-unsafe languages is just asking for trouble.
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Re:Devin, the First AI Software Engineer by supafastcoder on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @12:36PM (#39681535)
To be fair, a lot of those Upwork job requests are now being written with AI…
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Re:Devin, the First AI Software Engineer by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:31AM (#39688893)
It doesn't seem like Devin actually did the work requested, which was to provide instructions for using AWS?
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