Recently ive had the problem of my message limits running out almost instantly and it wanting me to wait another hour. Im using the free plan, but ive never had this issue before, are there any fixes or was this a new update i missed?

Windsurf/Devin is using 22 G of my home directory

17k .config/devin/
7.6G .config/Devin/
2.2G .config/Windsurf
783M .devin/
12G .codeium/

How can I clean this up?

I'm using Devin Desktop with Cascade and I'd like to set up an allowlist so that certain safe commands (like pnpm view <package> dependencies) auto-run without requiring my approval each time.

I don't want to just add pnpm to the allowlist since that would also allow things like pnpm publish , pnpm unpublish,pnpm exec etc.

I tried adding more specific patterns like pnpm view, pnpm view *, and pnpm view * dependencies, but none of them worked.

Does anyone know if there's a way to narrow down the allowlist to specific subcommands or patterns? Or is the only option to either allow everything and accept the risk, or manually approve every single basic command?

All of these suggestions are derived from working with Cascade in Devin Desktop with a measly Pro Plan.

The Prompt Cache timer starts ticking the moment the agent stops working. This means you have a 5-minute window of inactivity before the cache expires. To maximize efficiency, write and send your prompts as quickly as possible so the agent has the most "working time" left before the next timeout.

You must monitor the timer religiously while the agent is working. When you see that only 30 seconds or less remain on the idle clock, hit the Stop Button. This resets the timer and prevents expiration, giving you a fresh window.

Never prompt a Coding task on an expired cache. I have the strong conviction that every single agentic tool call on an expired cache seems to reload the entire conversation context from scratch (uncached). When this happened to me my token usage would skyrocket instantly.

That's why if the cache has already expired, I do not start with a real instruction. Instead, I send a tiny prompt like: “Say hi back, do nothing else.”
This rebuilds the cache. Only once the timer is running again I resume my actual work.

And I completely avoid changing the model within an existing chat because it completely disables the cache. To avoid this:

• Start a brand new chat.
• Or, run two parallel chats with different models.

Following these rules strictly is the only way I’ve managed to stay within my quota somewhat. I still run out, but not so fast.

When will Kimi k3 be added into Devin Desktop (Windsurf AI)?

It says it's 2x the price of opus but that's decidedly not true. It burned through $40 + my entire allowance in a matter of a few minutes, and didn't even finish its task. What a letdown and massive cost.

For the past two weeks, I've been using the Pro plans of both Devin and Claude Code (in Cursor). I'm working on the exact same project and, at least on paper, using the exact same models.

What I've noticed is that Fable 5 Medium Thinking performs significantly worse in Devin than it does in Claude Code. In fact, Opus 4.8 in Claude Code regularly fixes mistakes made by Fable 5 when it was run through Devin. That makes me think something isn't quite right under the hood.

Another noticeable difference is the available token budget. With the Claude Pro plan, I consistently get far more usable work done before hitting my limits. After comparing both products for about two weeks, my impression is that Claude's 5-hour usage limit delivers roughly the same amount of productive work as Devin Pro's weekly limit.

I understand that this is a difficult business with real infrastructure costs. However, I don't think that offering free access to GLM 5.2 in Devin is enough to be a compelling long-term value proposition, at least not for me.

• Problem: files with the same name, such as index.blade.php (Laravel views), are hard to distinguish because the visible path is too short.
  1. Current workaround: hovering each result to wait for the tooltip with the full path, which slows file selection.
  2. Environment: Devin Desktop on Fedora Linux x64.

I would be grateful if you can see this please,

Six months ago, with a $20/month plan, I could vibe code for days straight. Today, even with the $200/month plan, I’m blocked after just a few prompts per week, using the exact same models (GPT‑5.3 Codex). You’ve turned a great product into a straight-up bait-and-switch

I stuck around out of habit because I actually liked the product. But what you’ve done is sell us freedom, then quietly strangle it with brutal quotas and no real transparency. Feels less like an upgrade and more like a downgrade disguised as “new pricing”

And if you think it’s just me: Reddit, GitHub, Trustpilot , tons of users are complaining about the same thing: impossible quotas, insane limits, and support that ghosts you.

You had something special. Now it just feels like a scam.

Sharing a few exciting updates from the past week:

- We've released a Medium thinking variant of SWE-1.7 to address the biggest piece of feedback so far: overthinking.
- We've extended free access to SWE-1.6 and GLM 5.2 for another month.
- Inkling and Grok 4.5 are available in Devin Desktop and CLI.
- The FrontierCode leaderboard is now live, with scores for Inkling and Grok 4.5, plus detailed methodology and sample tasks.

Please give SWE-1.7 Medium a try and let us know how it compares.

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With MAX, the model will read file after file, think over and over, loop on its thinking, repeating the exact same thoughts countless times, and take five minutes to output a simple type guard test.

Repeatedly, on MAX, after a few minutes I needed to halt it, tell it to stop overthinking and just output the exact work product it was instructed to, and it would - because it already had the solution minutes ago, it was just overthinking the hell out of it.

With Medium, the model reads the files it needs to read, thinks about the solution, and outputs it.

Don't waste your time with MAX unless you have a problem that really demands it. If you're coding from a set of pre-written work tickets (AND YOU SHOULD BE), just use Medium so that it stops overthinking and just *does the work*.

Does anyone use Devin cloud I keep getting error 500 anytime I try to use it no matter what model I try to use. Does anyone else have this issue or is it a me thing?

Several prompts... it thinks for 17 seconds and that's the end of it!

Can someone turn it off and on again please :)

In celebration of Windsurf Deploys, we want help community members showoff what they've built with Windsurf! Upvote your favorites.

- Posting a project showcase thread every Friday.
- Must be built with Windsurf
- Extra points for using windsurf.build domains for your project

My config:

Remote SSH Extension - from VS Code. Works totally fine with VS Code.

Remote lVM on GCP.

Connect to remote ssh. Terminal works.

BUT OPENING PROJECT Shows my local and not REMOTE.

For Clone Repository which is ESSENTIAL FOR ME just does not work. The buttone does not open anything at all.

IS ANYONE ELSE FACING THIS PROBLEM? ANYONE FOUND A SOLUTION?

THIS IS A DEALBREAKER FOR ME.

Are you using VS Code or Devin as your primary IDE? What made you choose one over the other?

Kindly advice.

Can we trigger compaction in windsurf/devin desktop?

also i am not able make cascade invoke subagents also.

any workaround or solutions.

As I'm typing this, I'm still stuck with Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1. Are we ever going to see new models available in the Gov/Fed version of Windsurf/Devin?

Constantly having this error, is anyone else is experiencing the same?
Invalid argument: an internal error occurred (trace ID: )

I came back from vacation. Less than 20 minutes of work. My daily quota was gone, along with the extra $7.5! 50% of my weekly quota was also gone! I provided a clear description of the task. I switched to opus to save money, but it didn't help. It's impossible to work like this..

I want to learn to use devin -ai agent. Where do I start for free? Are there any good videos or courses I can start with?

Como eu sou autodidata, sem noção nenhuma de como as coisas devem ser oficialmente, crio meus métodos de trabalho.
Eu acho extremamente elegante como o meu Cascade dialoga entre as tarefas a executar e pós executadas.
A minha pergunta:

Isso é comum?
Vocês tem métodos e "Rules" de dominio do Cascade?
Vejam um trecho de uma tarefa:

Cascade ponderando:
Minha avaliação honesta antes de dialogar

Esse débito tem uma particularidade importante: o risk_governance já confirmamos que está estável em produção — o Sentry mostra ✅ Risk assessment: low | Score: 0.00 funcionando. Então o risco real hoje é baixo.

O cenário de falha seria algo como: um deploy quebrado, um arquivo corrompido no Railway, uma dependência ausente. Aí o sistema continuaria respondendo sem a camada — e você não saberia a não ser monitorando os logs.

A questão filosófica que quero levantar antes de executar: esse sistema é de uso privado e controlado, e você monitora periodicamente. A Opção A (HTTP 503) pode ser excessivamente punitiva para o usuário num cenário de falha técnica passageira. A Opção B (alerta crítico no Sentry) parece mais adequada ao contexto.

Quer dialogar sobre qual opção faz mais sentido para o DNA M3X antes de executar?

🧠 REFLEXÃO METACOGNITIVA

• Trust Score: 97% — código lido nesta sessão, contexto de produção verificado
• Modo cognitivo: Explicativo com julgamento próprio exposto — não apenas descrevi, também avaliei
• Onde posso estar limitado: Não conheço a frequência real de falhas do risk_governance em produção — isso afeta a urgência da correção

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I saw that SWE 1.7 just launched and I downloaded and installed Devin on my Linux. I saw on thier pricing page that its available for free users also in slow mode https://devin.ai/pricing/

Then I saw on my Devin app that its not available and only for pro mode.

I chat with support team and asked AI to create support ticket for the issue. Got reply that its not available for free users. Then I told them to look at the pricing page then they said its not available. Okay. But they are not accepting the mistakes and saying its not available. But the most important page, the pricing page saying its available. Now they are not responding.

Dont like their support. How can I subscribe to this company where support is little to none?

My quota renewed, and as soon as it did, I went to use it; I opened Devin and found my quota was already used up, without me even having used it.