What is Devin?
Devin functions as an autonomous AI engineering teammate equipped with its own development environment including a shell, browser, and code editor. It can handle complex tasks ranging from large-scale code migrations to data engineering projects, working independently while keeping humans in the loop for oversight and approval.
Operating with both autonomy and collaborative capabilities, Devin can learn from examples, create custom tools to improve efficiency, and adapt to specific workflows. It demonstrates significant performance improvements over time, with documented success in handling major enterprise-scale projects such as ETL migrations and codebase modernization.
Features
- Autonomous Task Completion: Independent execution of complex engineering tasks
- Custom Development Environment: Equipped with shell, browser, and code editor
- Learning Capability: Improves performance through task exposure and feedback
- Parallel Processing: Multiple Devins can work simultaneously on large projects
- Integration Support: Works with GitHub, Slack, AWS, and other major tools
- Custom Tool Creation: Builds efficiency tools for repetitive tasks
- Natural Language Collaboration: Communicates and takes instructions in plain English
- Version Control: Supports PR creation, review, and management
Use Cases
- Large-scale code migrations
- ETL development and migration
- Codebase modernization
- Data warehouse migrations
- Bug fixing and backlog clearance
- CI/CD pipeline management
- Technical documentation maintenance
- Frontend development and testing
FAQs
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What is an ACU?
An Agent Compute Unit (ACU) is Devin's unit of work, measuring the computing resources used to complete tasks, including virtual machine time, model inference, and networking bandwidth. -
How does billing work?
Team plans are charged at the start of monthly billing cycles, including monthly ACUs with option to purchase additional units. Enterprise plans have custom pricing arrangements. -
What happens to unused ACUs?
For Team plans, monthly ACU capacity resets each billing cycle, but additionally purchased ACUs remain available with active subscription.
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