hey guys - Walden here, one of the founders. Excited to have you try out Devin. Reach out here if you have any questions!
my name is Devin and I don't like sharing a name with a product. Will you please consider changing the name?
There is always the chance that someone named Devin will do something that gives your product a bad name. Perhaps some new scandal will involve someone named Devin or something.
I'd also like you to imagine that a hot new erotic AI was named "Walden", and people said things like "I was talking with Walden last night" as a euphemism. How would that make you feel?
Even if that version is limited to only editing public Github repos. $500 to see how well it works is too much.
I'd like to see that $50/month tier reopened to subscribers, and a $0/month+credits tier added (1 concurrent active session only, constrained to small VM spec with immutable rootfs (regular devin VMs have writable rootfs), no automatic knowledge generation, no snapshots, though playbooks allowed).
> Even if that version is limited to only editing public Github repos
Not possible to constrain like that with the current Devin architecture.
* will you store my code + train on workflows that Devin does for me? * are you piping data to other third party providers (i.e. anthropic, openAI)?
Would it really work well with the mixture of at least C and assembly which you implied it would with Linux kernel example?
The initial scan may take about a hour with a repository that size, and the knowledge base buildup will take about a week (but that one happens during the coding process). It will not continuously scan the entire codebase once it builds up the knowledge of the repository.
Is this the beginning when intelligence, domain expertise and ability to research becomes commodity?
That seems to be the challenge with Cursor Agent in it's current form, it generates a bunch of code that has bugs and requires a lot of iteration.
Also to mention, "suggest knowledge" modal is broken (it silently ignores changes made if you edit the suggested knowledge).
Another issue, sleep&snapshot system is still prone to race conditions in certain cases.
How much context window does it load when it is solving tasks?
How does it determine which files to load into context?
The word "try" is VERY different than the actual case, which is "pay for use".
If the answer to the first line is yes, how do I request my email be deleted? I started to sign up but I am not a use case for $500 a month at the moment.
What is the pricing story?
Can I use it as side project dev or is the target enterprise customers only / mainly?