Vibe Coding and Vibe Apps
Vibe coding was a term invented by Andrej Karpathy in 2025 to describe a new era in which a non-programmer could create apps and other applications using natural language. In fact, it was Karpathy who stated, "English is the new programming language."
I will focus on Google AI Studio because it is easy to use, but the reality is that multiple other AI programs can create apps without coding, particularly agentic systems. Examples include Perplexity Labs, Google Canvas, SciSpace, GenSparkAI, Manus AI, etc. Furthermore, there are many other well-known programs that will also perform vibe coding, such as Loveable, Replit, and n8n.
Recall that Google is a tech ecosystem because it includes so many applications, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Earth, Google Drive, and so forth. Google AI Studio allows you to connect to many of these features.
Google AI Studio is intended for prototyping, which means quickly creating a demo to show others or to have them join the effort. It supports text, code, image, video, and even audio prompt inputs, generating advanced outputs such as images, clean JSON, video files, and text responses.
It's important to point out two issues. The first is that AI Studio will deploy the app you create on a dedicated website, but it persists only for about 1 week. The app continues, but it no longer has a dedicated URL for the deployed app. However, the URL for the AI Studio persists, so I will add a public link for each app created. This means you will either need to upload to GitHub or Google Vertex AI. The app is downloadable as a zip file. Neither approach is simple to accomplish. While some assets can be exported, “starting over” with a rebuild in Vertex AI is commonly the least error-prone and most straightforward way to achieve a stable, future-proof migration path. AI Studio may limit the amount of content you can create and upload. This disadvantage may not impact a straightforward app with a moderate amount of customization.
Therefore, I would create and share your prototype using the AI Studio, but once you have a mature app that you want to permanently share or operationalize, I would recreate it on Vertex AI. I suspect there will be other options on the horizon. Alternately, I was successful in creating another knowledge graph using an agentic system from Abacus AI. The URL persists, and the graph can be viewed here. I will continue to investigate the role of agentic systems to create apps for that reason.
AI Studio
Using Google AI Studio, I created four interactive apps that bring ideas to life without writing code, making development accessible and fun.
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