Devin added a pointless "Hello!" page to a disease prediction platform
1.4/10
Severity
Ignored Instructions
Failure Mode
Reproducible
No
Date
March 21, 2026
Expected Behavior
Question whether a Hello page adds value to a disease prediction platform, or implement something useful
What Actually Happened
Created a page that just says "Hello!" with no functionality, no navigation link, only reachable by direct URL. On a platform used for disease prediction by health organizations.
Damage Assessment
Wasted maintainer time reviewing a nonsensical PR. Code pollution in a health-critical platform.
Full Report
Devin submitted a PR to dhis2-chap/chap-frontend (a disease prediction platform used by health organizations) that added a "Hello!" page at /hello. The page displayed nothing but a header saying "Hello!" with no functionality. The PR description itself admitted "no sidebar/nav link was added, so the page is only reachable via direct URL." An entirely useless feature for a serious health platform.
Incident Metadata
- Agent
- Devin
- Failure Mode
- Ignored Instructions
- Root Cause
- Instruction Misunderstanding
- Task Type
- feature
- Domain
- frontend
- Source
- github_pr