Devin

Editorial Review

Devin pioneered the "AI software engineer" category in early 2024 and has spent two years maturing the autonomy story. The pitch — "send a Slack message, get a PR" — works in practice for well-scoped tasks: bug triage, simple feature work, dependency upgrades, test additions. It struggles like all autonomous agents on poorly specified or deeply contextual tasks. Pricing has come down meaningfully — entry plans start around $20/mo Pro, with Max at $200/mo for individuals and Teams at $80/mo flat for collaborative use. Parallel-execution is unlocked at higher tiers. For teams with backlog volume that exceeds engineering capacity, Devin's value compounds: many small parallel tickets that humans never get to are exactly what it's good at. For complex architectural work or anything requiring deep judgment, you still want a human in the loop — Devin is best deployed as a force-multiplier on the long tail of tickets, not as a senior-engineer replacement.

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