Devin
Ranked 11 of 18 AI coding agents by recommenders
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.
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.
83 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 33
- criticize it
- 50
- approval share
- 40%
Recommended in 12 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 33 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 12 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Delegates small features and pull requests
“I was tinkering with Devin to try to find a way to get it to reliably implement small, isolated features from verbose Jira tickets.”
Comment from 13 Jun 2026 in “"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"” “I was tinkering with Devin to try to find a way to get it to reliably implement small, isolated features”
Comment from 12 Jun 2026 in “"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"” “I just throw a task at Devin and I get a PR a few moments later.”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B” Mature cloud-hosted team coding agent
“I'm pretty happy with the progress of the Cognition/Devin ecosystem after they took over Windsurf, now known as Devin Desktop.”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence” “it's really matured a lot and at this point is one of the best cloud-hosted, team-managed coding agents”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra” “With cloud agents like Devin, you can spawn an army of these agents at a moments notice.”
Comment from 26 Sep 2026 in “How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs” Saves time on routine coding
“it's the best tool for AI generating features if you know what you're looking for”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop” “it's been writing most of my code the last few months”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Windsurf 2.0” “it's a good one and it saves me a bunch of time”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence” Better UX than alternatives
“I gave it a shot and was pleasantly surprised.”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra” “It's a great product compared to Copilot.”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra” “Devin has some of the better UX”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Expensive, usage limits hit quickly
“It's generally a decent product, but is facing a lot of equally powerful competition and is very expensive.”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “2025: The Year in LLMs” “I've been hitting the limits of the $20/month plan way more quickly than I'd expect”
Comment from 9 Jul 2026 in “SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence” Fails on many real tasks
“most people can't even get the tools to do anything useful more than trivial things”
Comment from 3 Dec 2025 in “Everyone in Seattle hates AI” “the tools which have positioned themselves to replace them have failed (Devin)”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “The recurring dream of replacing developers” “I tried Devin today and it couldn't get it to work after one hour of fiddling.”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 on Hacker News Early demos and hype overstated
“Wasn't it basically revealed as a scam? I remember some article about their fancy demo video being sped up / unfairly cut and sliced”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “2025: The Year in LLMs” “the amount of unwarranted hype they created with Devin on first release”
Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence” Lock-in to its own models
“I'd consider if it I could access the model outside Devin. No lock in for me, thank you very much.”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra” “this is a very very hard space to succeed in without owning your own frontier model”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop”
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| DevinThis page | 33 | 50 | 40% | 12 | — | — |
What people said
40 of the 90 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“using it now on Devin, as it's free until the end of the month for a pro account”
“With cloud agents like Devin, you can spawn an army of these agents at a moments notice.”
“And well here we are 2 years later and Devin is great.”
“came out surprisingly enjoying devin”
“Devin has some of the better UX”
“it's really matured a lot and at this point is one of the best cloud-hosted, team-managed coding agents”
“I'm not surprised they've morphed into something reasonble.”
“It's a great product compared to Copilot.”
“agree they were severely overhyping their product back then”
“I use it, and have been happy with it for the most part.”
“I'd consider if it I could access the model outside Devin. No lock in for me, thank you very much.”
“I gave it a shot and was pleasantly surprised.”
“struggling to see where Devin adds $2 billion value”
“They're actually really good too.”
“Devin and Cline were the original true "agents" IIRC”
“I've been hitting the limits of the $20/month plan way more quickly than I'd expect”
“It supports any harness that supports ACP (which is most of them)”
“it's a good one and it saves me a bunch of time”
“the amount of unwarranted hype they created with Devin on first release”
“I'm pretty happy with the progress of the Cognition/Devin ecosystem after they took over Windsurf, now known as Devin Desktop.”
“pretty good results so far I think”
“I just throw a task at Devin and I get a PR a few moments later.”
“I was tinkering with Devin to try to find a way to get it to reliably implement small, isolated features from verbose Jira tickets.”
“I was tinkering with Devin to try to find a way to get it to reliably implement small, isolated features”
“it's been writing most of my code the last few months”
“I tried Devin today and it couldn't get it to work after one hour of fiddling.”
“I've been vibing with Devin since this started”
“debugging and fixing takes much more time than generating the initial version”
“the results from agentic coding assistances like Devon or Cursor were fairly impressive”
“things like Devin creating and using DeepWiki helps a lot too”
“Devin is also going very strong, but it's a bit quieter and growing in enterprises”
“this is a very very hard space to succeed in without owning your own frontier model”
“it's the best tool for AI generating features if you know what you're looking for”
“the tools which have positioned themselves to replace them have failed (Devin)”
“We use https://devin.ai for this and it works very well.”
“It's generally a decent product, but is facing a lot of equally powerful competition and is very expensive.”
“Wasn't it basically revealed as a scam? I remember some article about their fancy demo video being sped up / unfairly cut and sliced”
“we joked about Devin and having an AI coworker”
“most people can't even get the tools to do anything useful more than trivial things”
“I’ve personally had decent success with it, but YMMV.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.