I Gave Devin 10 Real Tasks. It Completed 3.

The $500-to-$20 AI Developer That Still Can't Ship Last year, Cognition launched Devin at $500/month and called it the world's first AI software engineer. The internet lost its mind. Engineers panicked. Twitter predicted mass layoffs. Fast forward to 2026, and Devin costs $20/month -- the same price as a Claude Code or Cursor Pro subscription. That price drop tells you everything you need to know about how reality met the hype. I spent two weeks giving Devin real tasks from my actual backlog. Not toy problems. Not "build me a calculator." Real tickets that a junior developer on my team would handle. Here's what happened. The Test Setup I picked 10 tasks spanning different categories: 2 bug fixes (a date parsing issue, a broken API response) 2 migrations (database schema change, dependency upgrade) 2 new features (a webhook handler, a user settings page) 2 test suites (unit tests for an auth module, integration tests for a payment flow) 1 refactoring task (extract shared logic into a ut