--- title: Did the makers of Devin AI lie about their capabilities? description: This post explores the deceptive practices used by Cognition Labs in their demo video of Devin AI, highlights the limitations of Devin's capabilities, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/did-the-makers-of-devin-ai-lie-about-their-capabilities--xa4wyscgy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Did the makers of Devin AI lie about their capabilities? | daily.dev og:description: This post explores the deceptive practices used by Cognition Labs in their demo video of Devin AI, highlights the limitations of Devin's capabilities, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/did-the-makers-of-devin-ai-lie-about-their-capabilities--xa4wyscgy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Xa4WysCgy.png og:image:alt: Did the makers of Devin AI lie about their capabilities? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Did the makers of Devin AI lie about their capabilities? **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 12 min read · 83 upvotes · 9 comments ## Summary This post explores the deceptive practices used by Cognition Labs in their demo video of Devin AI, highlights the limitations of Devin's capabilities, and examines how Devin fixes bugs and errors in code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dixitram** · 27 upvotes > Software Engineers Right Now!! >  **@maverick\_talys** · 4 upvotes > Just another coding assistant based on LLM. > Even their official website is totally ugly. > > I mean if Devin is really a super developer, why we have this ugly basic website ? **@ghost** · 4 upvotes > i've been telling everyone to put their bugs in change_specific_broken_feature.py > for some time now **@five5** · 3 upvotes > Devin really brought some unrest in the dev world, but it has not replaced a single job. Plus they r coming into the light, with their shitty code, devs can finally relax. > Regardless AI compliments what u do, doesn't replace u. **@livingstoneackah** · 0 upvotes > When this AI comes out a lot of us developers we're scared. 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