AI & Software

I love trying new tools that make my work easier. For my latest project, a website called “AirDeals” that helps people find cheap flights, I decided to use AI to help me build it. I used a tool called Lovable.dev to create the first version of the website. It was great for getting a working website up and running quickly. But when I started to fix some small problems (called bugs), I ran out of my free credits on Lovable.dev. This was a good time to try another tool: Google’s Gemini CLI. I wanted to see if it could help me fix the bugs, even though it had never seen the website’s code before. ...

Every person who works with computers knows this feeling: you make a change that should work, but it doesn’t. This is a story about one of those times. I was working with the Gemini CLI on a seemingly simple problem: making sure the main picture (the “cover image”) for my blog posts showed up on all pages. This turned into a fun little mystery that led us to look deep into the website’s code. ...

GitHub has just announced a new tool called Spark that can turn your ideas into working apps using AI. This is a big step for “no-code” and “low-code” tools, which make it easier for anyone to create their own apps. From Idea to App in Minutes With Spark, you can just describe your app idea in plain English, and the AI will do the rest. It will create the look of the app and all the code that makes it work. This means that anyone with a great idea can now build their own app without having to write any code. ...

A big change is happening in the world of software development. It’s called “vibe-coding.” This means you can just describe an app you want to make in plain English, and an AI will build it for you. This is not just a cool new idea; it’s happening because we need to create new things faster and there aren’t enough people who know how to code. The market for AI coding tools is growing very fast. It’s expected to be worth over $26 billion by 2030. This is all about making it easier and faster for everyone to make software. ...

Google has just launched Opal, a new AI tool that helps you build apps. With Opal, Google is jumping into the fast-growing “vibe-coding” market. You can try Opal for free in the U.S. through Google Labs. This new tool will compete with other popular app-building tools like Lovable and Cursor. The market for AI coding tools is getting bigger every day. “Vibe-coding”, a term from computer scientist Andrej Karpathy, lets users describe an app idea in plain language, and the AI builds it. ...