Devin - First Impressions - by Zhu Liang - The Ground Truth
The first obvious thing you notice that it is extremely well designed for software engineers as users. This is very apparent from the onboarding step:
The Devin interface guides you through a series of steps (with video guide as well) to setup the repository. How to install dependencies, how to run lint and tests, what are the things to take note for the repository.
Here are some minor UX issues (no default value provided on how to install dependencies, I had to type that), but overall it is very clearly thought-out and as a developer you understand why it is done this way, and how the configurations you setup during onboarding relates to VM provisioning, snapshots, etc.
During repo setup, Devin automatically generates a repo note as part of its knowledge base on what it should know about the repository.
You can edit it manually, and when working on tasks and interacting with users, Devin will continuously give you suggestions to update the knowledge base so that your instructions and rules are followed across sessions. It is like a memory component for Devin.
