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Devin AI Failure on One of Its Upwork Projects

By Brian Wang

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Apr 19, 2024
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Youtuber, Internet of bugs, broke down the Devin Upwork video frame by frame. He shows what Devin was supposed to do, what it actually managed to do instead, and how bad a job of that it did.

Devin was not given the right instructions by the Cognition Employee. It was supposed to write instructions for setting up an outdated repository of code onto the A…

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