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MixedCopilot, Gemini · 12 Mar 2024

I don't find it very useful for anything non trivial

ThalesX on Hacker News

In the thread “Devin: AI Software Engineer”, replying to this comment

Helped: Boilerplate generation, learning new languages, and simple text transformation tasks.

Got in the way: Complex function implementation, non-trivial logic, and handling unique complex markup.

… But in general I just need to review and check rather than come up with the instruction entirely. I don't find it very useful for anything non trivial. If anything I found it more useful for generating milestones and tasks for a product, than even making a moderately complex input -> output without me having to check it in a way that annoys me. …