Devin

What is Devin?

About

Devin is a software engineering AI assistant that can browse websites and perform web-based tasks, functioning as a collaborative AI teammate for engineering teams. You can see how often Devin visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

AI assistants make one-off visits to websites based on user requests, rather than crawling the web in any automatic fashion. This allows the underlying LLM to incorporate up-to-date information outside of its training data in its answers, using a technique called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

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Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Assistants

Robots.txt

Should I Block Devin?

Probably not. AI assistants visit websites directly on behalf of human users, so blocking them will effectively block those users. This could lead to a poor user experience and possible negative sentiment about your website. Not blocking AI assistants will allow more human users to use your website as they choose.

How Do I Block Devin?

You can block Devin or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Devin # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/devin
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.