@imjaredz: Since I joined @cognition I've been obsessed with learning how our eng team uses Devin themselves If we are building th…

Since I joined @cognition I’ve been obsessed with learning how our eng team uses Devin themselves

If we are building the best coding agent + we have the most cracked engineers + we’ve been fully AI-pilled from day one… it stands to reason that there is a lot to learn by just watching our technical staff work

And yes there are a lot of tips & tricks. I recorded a video talking about my favorite…

Agent Fan Out - asking your agent to break down the problem, spin up 10 more agents in parallel, and combine their results

This is something I’ve seen everyone do

• from our model research team spinning up 100 Devins to examine eval logs
• or our product team using 5 child Devins to try out 5 different alternative implementations of the same thing

If engineering is cheap and easy, why not build the product 10 times and choose the best one?

Think of it in a master/slave context: Master Devin -> 10 Slave Devins -> Master Devin pulls their results

There are two reasons this is useful

1. Agents are smartest when their context is small and their task is small & precise. Context windows are finite and too much becomes distracting
2. Agents are good at helping you break a large problem into independent & parallelizable chunks of work

Every Devin is its own VM/computer so this also is just a great way to move faster. I’ve done a migration from React Native to Swift by having Devin break it up into 6 pieces then spin up new Devins to work in parallel

In the video I build a greenfield project and try my best to show off this agent fan out concept.

I also threw in a few other tricks that I’ve seen my coworkers do:

• Let Devin write its own prompts (especially for creating child Devins). It’s way better than us humans
• Do tons of things at once. You should be absolutely frying your attention span. Your job should just be babysitting 38 different Devins
• Don’t be a blocker. Before letting the agent work I make sure to tell it to ask me any questions that would fill in ambiguities. Give your agent all the information it needs (and then some more) so that it can just cook without stopping to ask you questions every few minutes
• Let Devin test itself. Integration sanity tests are pretty much solved

Hope this is useful!!

And please ignore the lights… I left “party mode” on by accident in our basement speakeasy

Inspired by

this is a really long post @imjaredz …

proof my attention span is still healthy and functioning

now you get it!!

mogging is a state of mind

thanks man!