This is an amazing primer! I am going to share this far and wide because people are so confused and misled on this topic. What would be very useful, and something right up your alley Peter, would be a product manager agent for noobs that could talk to you about what you want to build and translate noob input into technical language: e.g. protected routes, data storage, etc. Or if you even need a backend: sometimes I want to create an HTML/CSS prototype of an app for demo purposes and I'll see the AI tool is creating API endpoints 😂 — also, glad to see Replit comes out so strong, I agree with that!
I could not replicate any of the bad results in the Firebase Studio.
It gets to working web pages and web apps (similar to Replit) in almost one shot (with prompts to fix issues it discovers itself, but no additional guidance).
The apps, however, would be more basic than Replit's.
But I never got those terrible white screens with missing content or ridiculous blank pages (I used prompts from the video), so the Firebase examples were strangely misleading.
This is an amazing primer! I am going to share this far and wide because people are so confused and misled on this topic. What would be very useful, and something right up your alley Peter, would be a product manager agent for noobs that could talk to you about what you want to build and translate noob input into technical language: e.g. protected routes, data storage, etc. Or if you even need a backend: sometimes I want to create an HTML/CSS prototype of an app for demo purposes and I'll see the AI tool is creating API endpoints 😂 — also, glad to see Replit comes out so strong, I agree with that!
Great summary. Thanks for sharing the observations
Nice man
I could not replicate any of the bad results in the Firebase Studio.
It gets to working web pages and web apps (similar to Replit) in almost one shot (with prompts to fix issues it discovers itself, but no additional guidance).
The apps, however, would be more basic than Replit's.
But I never got those terrible white screens with missing content or ridiculous blank pages (I used prompts from the video), so the Firebase examples were strangely misleading.
Otherwise, great content!
Lovable has been the game changer for me recently. I think I tried bolt to early, based on this post.
Warp is earlier but interesting.