Devin one-week coding review
Devin was given a week of real coding tasks, from a simple Express API to pagination, and reviewed on speed and accuracy.
Devin built a three-endpoint Express API in about 4 minutes, but chose the wrong pagination style on a real codebase and needed review and refactoring.
Overview
How it was set up
Devin on the Teams plan, with its own browser, terminal and editor in a sandbox. Tasks were given in plain English.
Worth knowing
Slow at 20-30 minutes for a 10-minute task, got stuck in debug loops twice, and costs $500/month.
A prompt to start from
Add pagination to the [endpoint] endpoint. Support [page and limit] query params and return the total count in the response. Follow the pagination pattern already used in this codebase.
Written by Agentic Feats from the source. Not the author's exact prompt.
Sources 1
History
- Source published
- 2026-04-17
- Added to Agentic Feats
- 2026-10-13
- Pick
- No
- Markdown copy
- /c/devin-one-week-coding-review.md
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