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New Devon AI destroys Claude Code. Devon just changed the game forever. And I'm not even joking. This thing runs in the cloud, works from your phone, and never sleeps. Your codebase now has a developer on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Let me show you exactly what this means for your business.
Okay, let's talk about what's actually happening here because there's a war going on right now in the AI coding space. Claude Code on one side, Devon on the other. And most people are picking a side without understanding what these tools actually do differently. So today, I'm going to break it down for you. No fluff, no hype, just the facts. And by the end of this video, you're going to know exactly which one belongs in your workflow and how we're already using both inside the AI profit boardroom to build real automation systems that save our [music] members hundreds of hours. Let's go.
Devon is an AI software engineer built by a company called Cognition AI. It's not a coding assistant. [music] It's not a co-pilot. It's not something that sits next to your developer and makes suggestions. Devon is designed to be the developer. You give it a task. It plans the task. It writes the code. It tests the code. It fixes the bugs. Hey, if we haven't met already, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency. Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates. Julian Goldie reads every comment, so make sure you comment below. It deploys and it does all of this inside its own cloud environment without touching your local machine at all. That last part is massive. We're going to come back to that.
Claude Code is Anthropic's answer to the same problem. It's a terminal-based AI coding tool that runs locally on your machine. You open your terminal, you talk to it, it writes code, edits files, runs commands, and builds things out for you. Claude Code is incredibly powerful. We've used it inside the AI profit boardroom to build full automation workflows, custom integrations, and internal tools that would have taken a developer weeks. But here's the key difference, and this is where it gets interesting. Claude Code lives on your machine. You have to be there. Your laptop has to be open. The session has to be running. When you close the lid, it stops. Devon never closes the lid.
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Imagine you're running a business. You're growing your community. You're managing clients. You've got a hundred things going on. You don't have time to sit at a laptop and babysit a coding session. Now, imagine you wake up in the morning. You grab your phone. You open Slack. And you just type, "Hey Devon, build me a new onboarding automation for the AI Profit Boardroom that tags new members, sends them a welcome sequence, and adds them to our tracking sheet." And then you put your phone down, go to your meetings, go to lunch, come back a few hours later. Devon has planned it, built it, tested it, and it's ready for you to review. That is a completely different relationship with AI than anything we've had before.
Claude Code runs locally. Devon runs in the cloud. Claude Code, you work with it in real time in your terminal. Devon, you assign it tasks and it works asynchronously. Claude Code, one task at a time in your session. Devon can handle multiple tasks in parallel across different parts of your codebase. Claude Code stops when you close your laptop. Devon keeps working around the clock. Claude Code, no phone access. You need to be at your machine. Devon works directly from Slack or your phone. Claude Code, free to use with Claude subscription. Devon, paid product.
Does Devon destroy Claude Code? No, that's not the right way to think about this. They're solving different problems. Claude Code is like having a genius sitting next to you at your desk. You collaborate in real time. You direct it. It moves fast. It's fantastic for building things right now in the moment when you're actively working. Devon is like hiring a remote developer who works while you sleep. You don't manage every line. You assign tasks, check in, review the output, and move on. The question isn't which one is better. The question is what does your workflow actually need.
We use Claude Code when we're in a building session. Sitting down focused, working through a specific automation or integration. It's fast. It's responsive. You can iterate quickly. If we're building a new workflow for our community platform or connecting a new API, Claude Code is the tool we reach for in the moment. But Devon changes what's possible when you're not sitting at a desk. Imagine being able to assign Devon a task like this: "Review the AI profit boardroom onboarding flow, identify any broken steps or missing automations, and write a fix for each one," and then walk away. That's not a coding assistant. That's an on-call developer. And the on-call rotation just became a product you can buy.
When Devon runs a task, it spins up its own sandboxed cloud environment. It has access to a browser. It can search the web. It can read documentation. It can run code. It can test things. And it does all of this completely isolated from your local machine. That means a few things. One, your machine doesn't slow down. Your laptop doesn't get hammered by a long-running process. Devon works in its own environment entirely. Two, it can run tasks that take hours. Claude Code in a terminal session is bound by the time you're actively using it. Devon doesn't care. It'll keep working on a long, complex task for as long as it takes. Three, multiple tasks in parallel. This is huge for teams. You can assign Devon five different tasks across five different parts of your codebase and all five are running at the same time. No waiting, no bottleneck.
Devon connects directly into your Slack workspace. So your team can assign it tasks exactly the same way they'd assign tasks to a human developer. Tag Devon in a thread, describe what you need, it picks it up, works on it, and reports back in the same thread. This changes how small teams operate completely. If you're running a lean operation like most of us in the AI profit boardroom community are, you don't have a dev team. You have yourself, maybe a few team members, and AI tools. With Devon plugged into Slack, your whole team can now delegate technical work without anyone needing to sit in a terminal. Someone finds a bug, they tag Devon, it investigates, it fixes it, it sends back a pull request. That workflow used to cost you a contractor or a full-time hire. Now it's a Slack message.
Let's say we're building a new feature for the AI profit boardroom. We want to create an automated system that tracks member engagement, identifies people who haven't logged in for seven days, and triggers a personalized re-engagement email sequence. With Claude Code, you sit down, you work through it step by step, you're actively involved in every part of the build. Great if you have a focused hour to dedicate. With Devon, you open Slack and you type: "Build a member re-engagement automation that pulls data from our platform, identifies members inactive for seven or more days, and triggers our email sequence via our current email tool. Here's the API documentation," and you walk away. Devon goes to work. It reads the docs. It writes the integration. It tests the connection. It comes back to you with the working code and a summary of what it built. One of these fits your Monday morning. The other fits you Saturday night when you've got an idea but you're not sitting at a desk. And both are powerful. They serve different moments.
This is the beginning of asynchronous AI development at scale. Right now, AI coding tools mostly work in real time with a human in the loop. You prompt, it responds, you review, you prompt again. It's collaborative but it's synchronous. You have to be there. Devon is the first serious push toward AI that works on your behalf while you're doing something else entirely. And that shift is enormous because time is the one thing you can't get more of. If your AI can work while you sleep, that's not just a productivity boost. That's a completely different leverage model. For everyone building inside the AI profit boardroom, this is exactly the kind of leverage we talk about. Not just automating tasks, automating the building of systems while you're focused elsewhere.
Devon is impressive, but it's not magic. It still makes mistakes. It still needs clear instructions. It still sometimes goes down the wrong path and needs to be corrected. The better your prompt, the better your result. This hasn't changed. Garbage in, garbage out. If you give Devon a vague task, you'll get a vague result. If you're specific, clear, and give it the context it needs, it performs remarkably well. It's also expensive. For individual developers or small teams just getting started, Claude Code is still the smarter entry point. It's powerful, it's fast, and it costs a lot less. But for teams managing complex codebases, running multiple projects in parallel, or needing development work to happen outside of active working hours, Devon starts to make a lot of sense very quickly.
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