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So they perfectly nailed the junior engineer. It’s just that that isn’t what people are looking for.


Maybe. It's pretty weird and I'm still thinking about it.

You can't throw junior engineers working on an issue under the bus when they clearly can't do that. Or at least it takes some effort. In return you may coach them and hope they eventually improves.

Devin does look like junior engineers, but I've learned to just click "Terminate Session" immediately after I spotted that it was doing something hopeless. I've managed to get some real work done out of it, without much effort on my side (just check what it's doing every 10~15 minutes and type a few lines or restart session).




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