Devika Anyone? a Devin Open Source Alternative

Apr '24 (edited) • Full Stack Development with AI

Greetings AI Accel Tribe!

While my project includes a CrewAI team that's looking like the easy part. The bigger amount of work is the marketplace. I need a scalable full stack commercial grade multi-buyer multi-seller marketplace. In the past I would have designed the architecture, wrote the specs and hired a team of software engineers to build it. I'm hoping to avoid that last step and instead put an AI coding team to work.

Introducing Devika from the Readme https://github.com/stitionai/devika

"About

Devika is an advanced 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 utilizes large language models, planning and reasoning algorithms, and web browsing abilities to intelligently develop software.

Devika aims to revolutionize the way we build software by providing an AI pair programmer who can take on complex coding tasks with minimal human guidance. Whether you need to create a new feature, fix a bug, or develop an entire project from scratch, Devika is here to assist you.

Note

Devika is modeled after Devin by Cognition AI. This project aims to be an open-source alternative to Devin with an "overly ambitious" goal to meet the same score as Devin in the SWE-bench Benchmarks... and eventually beat it?"

So I spent a half a day trying to get it working on my Windows machine and even though I got it running following the readme but it wouldn't actually start a new project and that's the first thing. Tried a number of thing and same result. Then I found a video where @PromptEngineer48 installed it with Conda and that worked! https://youtu.be/gcMdzGrDLlw?si=4rwzIW-2IOPh4LtP

Now the fun begins, you get to choose the search engine and LLM from the UI. That lead me to a few hours of what does and doesn't work. Most get lost trying to answer Hi, it is entertaining to watch the AI make a plan to answer and get lost in it. Good thing Groq is free I burned a ton of tokens and only got Hello! Google and GPT3.5 or 4 works pretty good but I'm a long ways from getting it to build my marketplace!

Love to hear your experience and about other Devin alternatives.

Code On Tribe!

Jess ✌️🧡😎

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