The Devin 'AI Software Engineer' Scam

Is Devin AI a complete scam? Or is it a revolutionary AI powered autonomous software engineer? Or somewhere in between?

Original Devin AI Video:

@InternetOfBugs Video:

@ThePrimeTimeagen Video:

Reddit Post:

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[yoshua]

Scott Wu's last company, Lunchclub was also an "AI matchmaker". It raised 24 million in its Series A. 2 years later he left and it never scaled. I heard rumours there was no AI in it at all. People were manually matchmaking in the background and the model used to assist them in this was not predominately AI.

[JeanBaptisteChabi]

Sometimes, i wonder how mindless some people can be. Ai developer will be useful for one type of people, Developers. The reason is simple, to tell ai to make an api call, you need to know what api is and how it works, for you to order ai to build a database, you must know what database is and how it works, the same goes almost everywhere.

I'm just a junior dev, and forgetting ai coder, with the state ai in image generation, I can tell ai to generate a beautiful art, it will generate what it considers beautiful, but I'm not an artist, i can't indicate the combinations, the lighting, the structure that make a great art, which means, an artist will get way better art from ai compared to me.

The same goes for devs, ai coder will only be useful for people who know coding. If you believe AI can take your job, then i can state that you don't even have a skill to begin with.

[CodeSpeedrun]

Junior dev creating bugs and then fixing them seems accurate.

[MavVRX]

The genius coder that can't even ship code

[kryzenskj]

More than a month, still just a closed demo.Oh well

[nicholaspreston]

12:52 "they [AI] cannot understand the entire context of a repository..."
Neither can many developers, unfortunately.

[TyTy-gmyb]

Software engineers won't be replaced totally any time in the future. Even if a model has a 99.9% accuracy rate, 0.01% of the time it will mess up. So 1 out of 1000 instances, it will mess up, and an instance could be a page of code....a couple of lines of code....it does not matter. What matters is that you cannot leave a machine that can break and/or have a 1 in 1000 error rate handle a multimillion dollar infrastructure on it's own. If it messes that infrastructure it will cost companies millions and millions of dollars.

[gaiustacitus]

The CEO of nVidia appears to have made claims about Devin's capabilities to drive up stock prices and increase the sales of a specific series of high end video cards.

[dominick]

Auto gpt has been around for over a year FYI. Not from nowhere.

[Stwithcode]

Their website is built with a website builder. didn't even code it themselves

[VaurionX]

As always, you made great points throughout. Skepticism is always a good starting point, particularly when you will be making decisions that have a large impact on people's lives. Even when news articles make grand claims, and the cultural zeitgeist says one thing: critical thought, paying attention to history, and not jumping the gun are important.

[henrymaddocks]

Your comment at 9:00 is spot on. If LLMs asked clarifying questions rather than hallucinating, that alone would be a step change.

[TokyoNeko]

lol when you said you go to work at 10:45AM and leave at 11AM after the standup and get some lunch

[dera_ng]

VCs getting milked left, right and center 😂😂

[Icedanon]

Interesting. I still dont think the time to replacement is that far off though.

[crusted_dank]

With ChatGPT, if you tell it to ask you clarifying questions during the coding process, it will. Although I have never done it, I assume you could train a custom GPT to do it by default too.

[talkinghat]

We all want Devin or any AI to fail so bad so we can all keep our jobs and feel appreciated on Monday mornings……
(I wish I bought AI shares).
That day will come whether we like it or not.

[brainites]

I am glad people caught the next Theranos or the next FTX in the making in its tracks before it got made.

[blacklightgaming]

bro said it at 1:30 same with artist and new generation kids who now will only type or think about art or such

[AP-temk]

Yea Carl's video was enlightening to say the least, and I'm glad he was able to pull back the veil a bit and explain what Devin actually did.