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YesDevin · 17 Jan 2025

I've managed to get some real work done out of it, without much effort on my side

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check what it's doing every 10~15 minutes

In the thread “Thoughts on a Month with Devin”, replying to this comment

Helped: Terminating hopeless sessions immediately and checking periodically.

Got in the way: It often does hopeless things requiring termination.

… Devin does look like junior engineers, but I've learned to just click "Terminate Session" immediately after I spotted that it was doing something hopeless. I've managed to get some real work done out of it, without much effort on my side (just check what it's doing every 10~15 minutes and type a few lines or restart session).