An AI engineer on your team, or Devin, do my work for me!
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Presentation describes using an AI engineer called DevinAI to complete frontend and full‑stack tasks in a team, recounting about 100 tasks processed and noting which kinds of work DevinAI handles well and which (JS-to-TS migration) it performs poorly and wastes money on. It analyzes the cost of having a virtual engineer on the team and discusses whether and when such an AI could replace a human engineer, offering practical guidance and examples from their experience.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:53Dev tools evolution
- 7:08How Dev works
- 9:15Dev benefits
- 13:08Autonomous coding agents
- 16:05Rules for Dev use
- 21:23Bad AI advice
- 24:22Handling large tasks
- 27:17Dev advanced features
- 29:05Incident automation
- 31:12Dev limitations 2025
- 33:45Dev cost analysis
- 36:22Human role with Dev
- 40:33AI in engineering culture
- 42:00Q&A
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