Triage client Slack messages into tickets and drafts
Use Devin to inspect new client messages, open Linear tickets, and draft replies for human approval.
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Real examples of people putting Devin to work: the task, how it went, what to watch out for, and a prompt you can adapt.
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Have an agent launch a business from zero
A developer gave Devin the tools to operate independently and asked it to build a business from scratch.
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Use an agent to prospect and draft outreach for web design leads
Chris Wozniczek had Devin look for leads, create sample sites, and prepare tailored cold emails for website services.
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Migrate React components from MUI to Tailwind
Lumos used Devin for a straightforward style-system migration and relied on tests to reduce back-and-forth fixes.
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Use Devin to update a docs list and open a PR
Devin added a new AI coding CLI tool entry to a docs page and opened a pull request in about 5 minutes.
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Make the smallest safe boolean fix in production
A reviewer had Devin correct a live boolean setting and received a pull request in about ten minutes.
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Build a page in small Devin sessions
An engineer used Devin to ship a deals page in stages, with each chunk handled in a separate session and PR.
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Let an agent find and apply to matching jobs
They used a job-finding agent to search openings, sort them by fit, tailor resumes, and send applications, which led to interviews and an offer.
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Build a WordPress site from a Figma file overnight
A developer let Devin read a Figma design through MCP and had it assemble a WordPress marketing site while they slept.
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Turn Slack feedback into pull requests with an agent
Use an agent to sort Slack feedback, draft fixes as PRs, and help debug infrastructure with read-only access.
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Split a migration into parallel agent tasks
A developer used Devin to break a React Native-to-Swift migration into separate tracks and run them at the same time.
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Record a feature walkthrough, fix issues, and land the PR
Ryan Carson used Devin to click through a feature, find bugs, repair them, and merge the pull request with a command.
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Use Devin to push backlog work into pull requests
Ryan Carson used Devin across several tools to turn backlog items into pull requests faster.
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Use an agent to map code before drafting docs
A technical writer uses Devin to inspect repos and draft docs, then revises the pages locally and with engineers before publishing.
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Use Devin for one integration, one migration, and a review
Answer.AI tested Devin on three coding tasks, but the migration stalled and the security pass mixed valid findings with mistakes.
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Transfer Notion entries into a shared Sheet
Devin was tested on routine data work, including copying a Notion table into Google Sheets.
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Have Devin gather research sources, then verify them
Answer.AI tested Devin on paper-finding and transcript research jobs, but it stalled on HTML and produced vague, off-target output.
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Update a Vue 2 Electron repo in small reviewable chunks
Kearney had Devin carry a production Electron codebase from Vue 2 to Vue 3 while refreshing dependencies and checking progress in small batches.
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Have Devin make a chess app with an AI opponent
An early tester used Devin to create a chess program where the user played a language model, and the build stalled before completion.
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Use Devin to ship a small game and site
A tester had Devin produce a Pong-like game plus a website, and the work wrapped up in less than 20 minutes.
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Build and deploy a Game of Life site
A developer used Devin to create an interactive Game of Life website, add requested features step by step, and publish it to Netlify.
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Use Devin to answer warehouse questions and build dashboards
Cognition uses DANA, a Devin variant, to query its warehouse, make charts, and create shareable dashboards from Slack or the web app.
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Turn a spreadsheet into a face-matching quiz site
A developer had Devin turn a TSV of speaker names and photos into a mobile-friendly React quiz and a QR-code landing page.
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Scan code for business-logic and auth bypass flaws
A developer used Devin to split a codebase into parts, trace exploit paths across files, confirm issues in a sandbox, and open fix pull requests.
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