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.
- What they did
- Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg, using one of the private-preview seats, gave Devin a request to make a simple Pong-style game and a website entirely from scratch. Devin operated through chat in a sandbox that provided a code editor, a browser, and shell access. It planned the work in stages, wrote code, ran checks, repaired its own bugs, and reported progress during the process.
- How it went
- Vance said both pieces were done in under 20 minutes. The write-up did not assess the quality of either deliverable. It also said that more involved requests take longer.
- Tips
- Keep the first ask narrow so the agent can finish quickly and show you something working. Make it wait for confirmation before any public launch or other irreversible step.
Try it yourself with Devin
Create a [game type] game from scratch and build a simple website for it. The game should be playable in a browser with [controls], and the site should include [sections/pages]. Work in small steps, test each part, and tell me what you changed. Before you publish, delete, submit, or do anything else that can’t be undone, stop and ask for my approval. When everything is running locally, give me the launch instructions and a short rundown of the result.
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