Devin spawned multiple thousand-star open source clones — only OpenHands survived
hargup13 · x · 2026-10-20
Responding to the idea that the "half-life of open source clones" keeps shrinking, hargup13 notes most OSS clones go nowhere: when Devin launched, at least 3 open source clones racked up thousands of GitHub stars, but nearly all are dead — only OpenHands survived after raising VC funding.
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