Salima Ghadimi

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We started working on coding agents two years ago. Since then, we've learned a lot about using them effectively. It's clear that agents are immensely powerful, but come with a learning curve. Today we’re sharing Agents 101, a guide with our top lessons for any coding agent:

Slack came out in 2014. At the time it wasn't obvious why you'd want to use it. We already had email for professional conversations; quick group messages felt too unrefined to use at work. Coding agents are at a similar inflection point today. Most engineers are used to writing and reviewing every line of code themselves. The idea of working across multiple threads and delegating core parts of development to AI can sound scary at first. But just as early Slack adopters learned a new way to work and became more productive, early users of coding agents have discovered the right usage patterns through trial & error and have learned how to do a lot more. Over the last year and a half we’ve learned that coding agents are insanely powerful but come with a learning curve. So we sat down and wrote up everything we’ve learned from 250,000 merged PRs, from our own usage and our users’. Today we’re sharing Agents 101, a platform-agnostic guide to using any coding agent. It’s a short doc on how to incorporate async agents into your flow and includes the actionable tips that we use to make Devin our top code contributor. We’ll be updating this regularly and would love to hear your thoughts. devin.ai/agents101