HAhandfuloflight·Nov 30, 2024Submission
1 points · Open discussionstitionai
devika
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stitionai / devika
devika
Devika is the first open-source implementation of an Agentic Software Engineer. Initially started as an open-source alternative to Devin.
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What it is
Devika is the first open-source implementation of an Agentic Software Engineer. Initially started as an open-source alternative to Devin.
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Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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Observed mentions: 2024-03-21 07:38:08 UTC to 2024-11-30 01:24:16 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 2024 | 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Apr 2024 | 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2024 | 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2024 | 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2024 | 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2024 | 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2024 | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2024 | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2024 | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
10 sourcesLooks pretty easy to find tons of examples of agentic AI engineer projects online:
- https://github.com/Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot
- https://github.com/smol-ai/developer
- https://github.com/stitionai/devika
If you want to just make games there's Rosebud AI
I cannot speak for the quality of any of these projects though
In AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequenceDevika, an open source AI software engineer
8 points · Open discussionDevika: Open-Source Alternative to Devin
1 points · Open discussionDevika - Open Source Agentic AI software engineer
2 points · Open discussionSo… don’t hold your breath. If you see someone building a UI (like this https://github.com/OpenDevin/OpenDevin/tree/main/frontend, https://github.com/stitionai/devika/tree/main/ui; just read the commit log, it’s basically just ui
Yes. If you link to the UI sections of a repo you will likely see "basically just ui" commit history.
I guess you could argue that it’s important “setup infrastructure” stuff that any project starts with… but I’m just sceptical.
Of course it's an early stage pilot, it's only been developed since the Devin hype, why should it compete in quality at this very early time?
In OpenDevin – open-source implementation of devinThere are two parts to “writing a Devin”.
1) a pretty user interface, a backend service layer, all the normal things you’d need for a desktop app or saas.
2) a backend that can actually do work.
I’m going to go out a limb here and say, building an MVP of the UI is a waste of your time.
…because, unless you know how to build the backend (ie. part 2), you actually, have no idea what you need to build for part one.
You can copy of the UI from the Devin videos.
You can build your own langchain framework.
You can fine tune an open model on GitHub issues.
…but just like having building a gpt4 is harder than just “add more params”, building something that works like Devin appears to work requires a reasonably sharp “step up” in capability between what literally everyone has been doing with gpt4 until now, and being able to turn that into a usefu
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l framework for solving actual engineering tasks.
So… don’t hold your breath. If you see someone building a UI (like this https://github.com/OpenDevin/OpenDevin/tree/main/frontend, https://github.com/stitionai/devika/tree/main/ui; just read the commit log, it’s basically just ui) it means they’re doing the easy work (part 1) because they don’t know how to do the hard part (part 2).
…so, interesting, but this doesn’t smell like a really serious effort (at least yet).
I guess you could argue that it’s important “setup infrastructure” stuff that any project starts with… but I’m just sceptical.
I can draw pictures of a Devin too. A serious effort would be trying to replicate what Devin does not what it looks like.
I saw that there is another project announced around the same time with the same goal, and has a discord as well. Maybe if they align enough they could collaborate.
>Devika is an Agentic AI Software Engineer that can understand high-level human instructions, break them down into steps, research relevant information, and write code to achieve the given objective. Devika aims to be a competitive open-source alternative to Devin by Cognition AI.
https://github.com/stitionai/devika
In OpenDevin – open-source implementation of devinShow HN: Devika – Open-source alternative to Devin
8 points · Open discussion