Generate internal dashboards and data migration scripts
A backend engineer says their team uses Devin for internal dashboards and migration scripts, treating output as a starting point that saves about four hours of boilerplate.
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- What they did
- A senior backend engineer at a mid-stage SaaS startup, quoted from an April 2025 Hacker News thread, says the team gives Devin internal dashboards and data migration scripts. Nobody expects production-grade code. Devin works asynchronously in a sandbox, usually taking tasks from Slack or a ticket, and the team treats what it produces as a working draft.
- How it went
- The engineer says it reliably saves about four hours of boilerplate. The article says this is an extrapolation from 25–45 minutes saved per task, and it gives no controlled data.
- Worth knowing
- Review and prompting overhead is reported at 10–20 minutes per task, so the net gain is smaller than the headline figure. The $500/month team price is also quoted.
Try it yourself with Devin
In [path to repo], build [an internal dashboard showing X / a migration script moving data from X to Y] using [framework or database]. Treat this as a first draft: get it working end to end with sensible structure, then list anything you assumed or left rough. For the migration, run it only in dry-run mode against [test database] and show me the planned changes before anything real is touched.
Source: sitepoint.com · Undated
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