Ryan Carson

A developer shares their experience after paying $500 for Devin AI, praising its mature remote-first tooling that works across iPhone, Slack, Browser, GitHub, and Linear. They switched from a custom setup of Open Inspect, Codex, and Linear, citing the cost-effectiveness of not hand-building and maintaining integrations. Early results show improved PR shipping velocity.

Paid $500 for @DevinAI - liking it so far.

You can tell this team is much further than other agent labs when it comes to being truly remote-first.

Very mature, advanced tooling and it just works across all surfaces (iPhone, Slack, Browser, GitHub, Linear).

I was tired of trying to hand-connect everything with a custom setup of Open Inspect + Codex + Linear.

When you look at your hourly effective rate, it stops making sense trying to hand-build all this stuff.

Nvm the all the maintenance hours you need to put in.

I'll keep using Devin 100% for the next week and report back.

So far, my PR shipping velocity is higher than before - so that's good obv.

<p>Paid $500 for @DevinAI - liking it so far.

You can tell this team is much further than other agent labs when it comes to being truly remote-first.

Very mature, advanced tooling and it just works across all surfaces (iPhone, Slack, Browser, GitHub, Linear).

I was tired of trying to hand-connect everything with a custom setup of Open Inspect + Codex + Linear.

When you look at your hourly effective rate, it stops making sense trying to hand-build all this stuff.

Nvm the all the maintenance hours you need to put in.

I'll keep using Devin 100% for the next week and report back.

So far, my PR shipping velocity is higher than before - so that's good obv.</p>

Scott Wu

Devin, the AI software engineer tool, now offers a free tier to get started. The post encourages developers who haven't tried it yet to give it a go, noting significant recent changes to the product.