Update a docs page of AI CLI tools with Devin
A user had Devin update a page listing AI coding CLI tools; it opened a PR in 5 minutes, but a separate task needed much back-and-forth to find all files.
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- What they did
- The author asked Devin to add a newly discovered tool to the page on their site listing AI coding CLI tools. Devin had to work out the format of the existing entries, take a one-sentence description from the tool's GitHub repo, and add the entry in the same format. It opened a PR, and the author went back and forth with it over the date.
- How it went
- The first PR arrived within 5 minutes. Devin wrongly treated December 2024 as a future date, even after running the date command, and needed some back-and-forth before it updated the page's date.
- Worth knowing
- Across the author's 4 simple-to-medium tasks, Devin cost about 11.5 ACUs ($23) each, at $2 per ACU. The separate screenshot-update task needed much more back-and-forth.
Try it yourself with Devin
In [repo name], update the docs page at [file path or URL] that lists [topic, e.g. AI coding CLI tools] to add [items to add] and fix outdated entries. Search the whole repo for every other file that references this list and update those too. Open a PR and list each file changed, with sources for any facts you added.
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