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Likes Linear.

4 May 2025 Lenny's Podcast Inside Devin: The world’s first autonomous AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code by end of year | Scott Wu (CEO and co-founder of Cognition)

“I love, just with the integration with Linear, that you can still keep it really simple.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny Rachitsky
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4 May 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Yeah. Definitely it's a hands-on process. You certainly want to be involved when Devin is scoping out the task or giving you its thoughts. The nice thing, too, by the way, is Devin will give you its confidence level. Here's how likely I am to really understand this piece or that piece or whatever, but it helps make things a lot faster. To your point, a lot of product managers, for example, obviously love to be able to use Devin in Linear to understand the code base better or things like that. Claire Vo, for example, from LaunchDarkly is a big Devin user and she loves basically going and scoping out tasks or asking data questions or asking, "Hey, what's going on? Or is this merged into production yet? Or is this a feature flag right now? Or what percent of people are getting this or that feature?" It's a clean way basically to make that intelligence much more accessible. I love, just with the integration with Linear, that you can still keep it really simple. You add a little ticket like, "Hey, this link to this home page, do this," and Devin will be really good at understanding what you mean and then show you, "Here's what I'm thinking." Is this right? Yeah. Yeah, cool. Okay. Yeah, Devin did finish working. It seems like there's something going on with the CI and it's debugging that right now, but it went ahead and put up the initial first pass pull request and we can take a look.…

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