Testing Devin AI: Verbose Thinking but Successfully Pushed Open Source PRs
tristanbob · x · 2026-08-03
A developer shared their recent experience using Devin AI Desktop (formerly Windsurf) in "Adaptive" mode to maximize credit efficiency.
They observed that the tool produces incredibly verbose thinking output, including repeating information, checking rules, and self-correcting. Despite the heavy thought process, it worked great overall: Devin successfully tested code locally and pushed two PRs to an open-source project.
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