OpenDevin – open-source implementation of devin

There are two parts to “writing a Devin”.<p>1) a pretty user interface, a backend service layer, all the normal things you’d need for a desktop app or saas.<p>2) a backend that can actually do work.<p>I’m going to go out a limb here and say, building an MVP of the UI is a waste of your time.<p>…because, unless you know how to build the backend (ie. part 2), you actually, have no idea <i>what you need to build for part one</i>.<p>You can copy of the UI from the Devin videos.<p>You can build your own langchain framework.<p>You can fine tune an open model on GitHub issues.<p>…but just like having building a gpt4 is harder than just “add more params”, building something that works like Devin <i>appears to work</i> requires a reasonably sharp “step up” in capability between what <i>literally everyone</i> has been doing with gpt4 until now, and being able to turn that into a useful framework for solving actual engineering tasks.<p>So… don’t hold your breath. If you see someone building a UI (like <i>this</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OpenDevin&#x2F;OpenDevin&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;frontend">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OpenDevin&#x2F;OpenDevin&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;frontend</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stitionai&#x2F;devika&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;ui;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stitionai&#x2F;devika&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;ui;</a> 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).<p>…so, interesting, but this doesn’t smell like a really serious effort (at least yet).<p>I guess you could argue that it’s important “setup infrastructure” stuff that any project starts with… but I’m just sceptical.<p>I can draw pictures of a Devin too. A serious effort would be trying to replicate what Devin <i>does</i> not what it <i>looks like</i>.

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.<p>&gt;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.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stitionai&#x2F;devika">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stitionai&#x2F;devika</a>

We really do spend half our time chiding everyone for anthropomorphising the AI and then the other half giving them human names and trying to make them explicitly emulate human behaviours that they aren&#x27;t intrinsically good at.

There&#x27;s nothing really there yet besides the readme file. I saw this the other day on GitHub trending and left with mixed feelings. You can launch an empty repo riding the clicks and sharing what essentialy is a parked domain template, as long as the keywords match the narrative.

Gotta say, I admire the chutzpah. Commoditize the commoditization software, it&#x27;s the most open source thing ever

The UI is throwing an error relating to not being able to pull the image for: ghcr.io&#x2F;opendevin&#x2F;sandbox:v0.1<p>(base) OpenDevin % docker login ghcr.io Authenticating with existing credentials... Login Succeeded (base)OpenDevin % docker pull ghcr.io&#x2F;opendevin&#x2F;sandbox:v0.1 Error response from daemon: denied<p>error: File &quot;&#x2F;Users&#x2F;meek&#x2F;anaconda3&#x2F;lib&#x2F;python3.11&#x2F;site-packages&#x2F;docker&#x2F;models&#x2F;containers.py&quot;, line 876, in run self.client.images.pull(image, platform=platform) File &quot;&#x2F;Users&#x2F;meek&#x2F;anaconda3&#x2F;lib&#x2F;python3.11&#x2F;site-packages&#x2F;docker&#x2F;models&#x2F;images.py&quot;, line 464, in pull pull_log = self.client.api.pull( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File &quot;&#x2F;Users&#x2F;meek&#x2F;anaconda3&#x2F;lib&#x2F;python3.11&#x2F;site-packages&#x2F;docker&#x2F;api&#x2F;image.py&quot;, line 429, in pull self._raise_for_status(response) File &quot;&#x2F;Users&#x2F;meek&#x2F;anaconda3&#x2F;lib&#x2F;python3.11&#x2F;site-packages&#x2F;docker&#x2F;api&#x2F;client.py&quot;, line 267, in _raise_for_status raise create_api_error_from_http_exception(e) from e ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File &quot;&#x2F;Users&#x2F;meek&#x2F;anaconda3&#x2F;lib&#x2F;python3.11&#x2F;site-packages&#x2F;docker&#x2F;errors.py&quot;, line 39, in create_api_error_from_http_exception raise cls(e, response=response, explanation=explanation) from e docker.errors.APIError: 500 Server Error for http+docker:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost&#x2F;v1.44&#x2F;images&#x2F;create?tag=v0.1&amp;fromImage=ghcr.io%2Fopendevin%2Fsandbox: Internal Server Error (&quot;denied&quot;)

fuck you devin