<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: carlbrown</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=carlbrown</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:32:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=carlbrown" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by carlbrown in "Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork Lie Exposed [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disagree.  There are no actual lies in the video itself, and I don't think that, for example, the engineer who is narrating the video is responsible for writing the description of the video (which is where the actual lie was).<p>The person (probably in marketing) that made the false claim is at fault, and any manager involved who did not stop the lie is at fault.<p>The software developers who are working on Devin's code likely had no control of or idea about how the video was going to be marketed.<p>There have been many times that I've been part of a team that built a product we were proud of, and had some business or sales person at our company, over our objections, make claims about it to a customer (or potential customer) that the sales person had been told were not true.</p>
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<p>The company said in the description of the demo video that Devin did something in the demo video that Devin clearly did not do in the demo video.<p>That's a lie, pure and simple, and no statements made elsewhere can make that lie any less a lie.</p>
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<p>The video doesn't claim that Devin isn't useful.  The video is about the claims Devin's company is making:
1) Lying outright about Devin completing and getting paid for Upwork jobs, and
2) Declaring that Devin is an "AI Software Engineer" is, at best, a huge exaggeration.</p>
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