# Devin 33 Hacker News commenters recommended Devin and 50 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend it for delegating small, well-scoped coding tasks and getting pull requests back. Critics say it is expensive and that debugging its output takes longer than generating it. ## Why people recommend it - Delegates small features and pull requests (3 comments): "I was tinkering with Devin to try to find a way to get it to reliably implement small, isolated features from verbose Jira tickets." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513476)) "I was tinkering with Devin to try to find a way to get it to reliably implement small, isolated features" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509609)) "I just throw a task at Devin and I get a PR a few moments later." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558758)) - Mature cloud-hosted team coding agent (3 comments): "I'm pretty happy with the progress of the Cognition/Devin ecosystem after they took over Windsurf, now known as Devin Desktop." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834356)) "it's really matured a lot and at this point is one of the best cloud-hosted, team-managed coding agents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651549)) "With cloud agents like Devin, you can spawn an army of these agents at a moments notice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49855150)) - Saves time on routine coding (3 comments): "it's the best tool for AI generating features if you know what you're looking for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712069)) "it's been writing most of my code the last few months" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785064)) "it's a good one and it saves me a bunch of time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836411)) - Better UX than alternatives (3 comments): "I gave it a shot and was pleasantly surprised." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647953)) "It's a great product compared to Copilot." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649457)) "Devin has some of the better UX" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652706)) ## What people warn about - Expensive, usage limits hit quickly (2 comments): "It's generally a decent product, but is facing a lot of equally powerful competition and is very expensive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453023)) "I've been hitting the limits of the $20/month plan way more quickly than I'd expect" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839881)) - Fails on many real tasks (3 comments): "most people can't even get the tools to do anything useful more than trivial things" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46140960)) "the tools which have positioned themselves to replace them have failed (Devin)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665963)) "I tried Devin today and it couldn't get it to work after one hour of fiddling." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726513)) - Early demos and hype overstated (2 comments): "Wasn't it basically revealed as a scam? I remember some article about their fancy demo video being sped up / unfairly cut and sliced" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452908)) "the amount of unwarranted hype they created with Devin on first release" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836181)) - Lock-in to its own models (2 comments): "I'd consider if it I could access the model outside Devin. No lock in for me, thank you very much." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648314)) "this is a very very hard space to succeed in without owning your own frontier model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712150)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Claude Code](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code.md): 4522 recommend - [OpenAI Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/codex.md): 2474 recommend - [OpenCode](https://hackerapproved.com/p/opencode.md): 1060 recommend - [Gemini CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-cli.md): 172 recommend - [Cline](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cline.md): 63 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://devin.ai/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Devin", https://hackerapproved.com/p/devin/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).