Devin AI: A job snatcher or a developer’s tool?

26/06/2024

When we talk about artificial intelligence like Devin AI, we think about ChatGPT, MidJourney, Jasper AI, etc which can do many jobs for you in a fraction of a second like writing a blog, story, book, generating an image, video editing, etc. It sounds like we are entering the future but it also threatens some of us that what if one day AI will become capable enough that it will start snatching jobs at a mass scale or in the worst case scenario, we will see the movie The Terminator becoming the reality. Thankfully, the second scenario is way farther away and we can handle that easily but if we talk about the first scenario, it is becoming the reality.

What is Devin AI?

Devin AI is a new AI in the market that can quickly do some developers’ jobs. It can build and deploy fascinating apps end to end, it can autonomously find bugs and fix them in codebases, train and fine-tune its own AI models, address bugs and inform the developers, and lots more.

Is Devin AI a threat?

Because of its efficiency and easy-to-use method, many developers believe that it will replace them and it makes sense as well because many customers who want to develop apps and websites will prefer Devin AI instead of hiring a tech guy who charges them money and takes time. However many aspects of this AI still need to be discussed. Don’t worry, we will discuss those things in this article.

Practical uses of Devin AI

Mervin Praison is a web developer with 30 years of experience. He is a YouTuber as well and he made a video on Devin AI in which he was testing this tool. In this experiment, he gives Devin a task to scrap the article on one of his websites, extracting all the information, putting each page in a markdown file, and zipping all the files in a folder so he xo can download them.

In the beginning, it was doing good, scraping all the web pages and extracting all the key information but after a while, it could not scrape all the web pages (6 out of 76), so Mervin instructed Devin to crawl more deeply. In this experiment, we can see that Devin AI is capable of doing its job but it needs a lot of instructions and it need a lot of more development.

So developers can see this as a relief because their jobs are safe and now they can use this AI for their benefit. But when we talk about the AI development concept, we saw that almost two years ago, we had AIs that could generate pictures but at a very low quality and efficiency was a matter of luck, but now we have super advanced AIs like MidJourney which can generate images which looks very realistic and even better than human creators, it means that we have an alternative to generate images which is affordable as well as less time-consuming in just two years.

If we talk about Devin AI, it will too become super advanced AI like MidJourney and it might be possible that it will replace the developers.

Aftermaths of Devin AI

For now, Devin AI is not a threat for developers but it may become in the future. It may take over the developers’ jobs but it will open new gateways for some new kinds of jobs as well. For example, AI may replace jobs like web development, graphic designing, blogging, etc but it will create new fields of jobs like machine learning, AI development, prompt engineering, etc. So, if you are looking to learn a new skill so you can go with the flow then you should try skills regarding AI, among all of them prompt engineering is very easy and very basic, so you can start with that.

FAQs

1. Is Devin AI capable enough to replace the developers?

Ans. Devin AI can perform some basic tasks but it is not capable enough to replace the developers.

2. Is Devin AI a good tool for developers?

Ans. Absolutely yes, it can do some basic tasks so you can focus on other things and it will save a lot of your time.

3. Are there any chances that Devin AI will become more advanced sooner or later?

Ans. Let’s look at the history of AI. We can easily say yes because we saw that almost two years ago, we had AIs that could generate pictures but at a very low quality and efficiency was a matter of luck. Still, now we have super advanced AIs like MidJourney which can generate images that look very realistic and even better than human creators, it means that we have an alternative to generate images which is affordable as well as less time-consuming in just two years.

4. If I want to save my job from Devin AI as a developer, then what should I do?

Ans. There are many alternatives if you are a developer and want to save your career and achieve success. You can try other alternative skills required for the development of AI like prompt engineering, machine learning, AI development, etc.

5. Is there any scope in learning a skill regarding AI?

Ans. Absolutely yes, in the future, AI will replace so many jobs, and only those who know the skills regarding AI will become successful.

Conclusion

We all think that advancement in technology will replace our jobs but this is not the first time it happened. If we talk about history, during the Industrial Revolution, many factory workers used to think that machines would snatch their jobs and they had to go back to their villages. But guess what, it wouldn’t happened because machines replaced many workers but factory owners still needed workers for manufacturing, maintenance, cleaning, and operating of the machines. So, it might be possible that AI will just replace the skill requirement, not the number of jobs.