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Devon: An open-source pair programmer

by lawrencechen on 5/19/24, 9:49 PM with 27 comments

  • by realharo on 5/20/24, 9:36 AM

    The demo video shows it making a game of life.

    People really should start using examples that don't have literally thousands of step by step tutorials all over the web.

    That includes clones of Wordle, Flappy Bird, generic todo lists, etc. With those, I can't tell how well the abilities would generalize to real world projects.

  • by bangaladore on 5/20/24, 8:41 PM

    Why are they manually implementing API interfaces for various companies when something like OpenRouter exists? OpenRouter provides a unified API for Commercial and opensource models. Seems like the obvious answer for something like this.

  • by smarm52 on 5/20/24, 6:06 PM

    Unclear about the details of this project. Is there an overview or paper related?

    Superficially it seems to be an interface for ChatGPT or other similar generative LLM service.

  • by lakomen on 5/20/24, 2:39 PM

    I can't imagine coding with someone else smartassing over what I do. Never tried it. Does anyone actually like pair programming?

  • by mholubowski on 5/20/24, 3:40 AM

    Hi! Why does it work best with Python? Should I even bother if it’s for a non python project? (In this case, a WordPress plugin).

    Thank you!

  • by serjester on 5/20/24, 4:18 AM

    Why choose this name - seems like a cease and desist waiting to happen.