Yep, that’s what I’m testing with now. I thought maybe Replit’s new v2 agent would handle large context windows better but maybe not yet in the early release version.
The problem is that you do not know in detail how replit and others handle context. There are many many subtle details that you have to get right to get a complex app working. With the correct questions AI can perfectly do it but you need to structure it meticulously
AI code builders are not replacing Bubble for non-technical people, but they likely will replace bubble for experienced traditional developers as they already know the code and can spot check easily on their own, plus throw it into all the other useful tools they already use for debugging their code more easily.
For non-technical users, Bubble will remain the go to tool, not just because of a need to spot check errors on AI code generators, but also because it is highly likely the non-technical user will be clueless as to how to apply logic properly so to as avoid other issues that are not necessarily mistakes within the code, such as timing issues.
It is also extremely frustrating to be apparently ‘speaking’ to an intelligent ‘thing’ that doesn’t actually follow your instructions every time.
From my experience, the direction @nocodeventure has taken seems like a winning path for some projects. You’re combining the best of nocode with that of code. However you’re making the code, you’re basically adding a little complexity for a lot of value. There’s no perfect stack for any project, because they all differ so wildly in their needs, requirements, lifespan, cost, usage, etc. It’s awesome to see more tools, to get more projects off the ground and more people with mixed abilities to get their ideas out there.
I’m still reluctant to pick up platforms like bolt as, from my perspective, I see a lot of social shilling for it.
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Like, before claiming to build your production app with AI, first build a single plugin with AI. Imagine not knowing how to ride a bicycle and thinking you can solve this by skipping the training wheels (plugins) and moving to motorcross.
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My bad if late to the party on this and it has already been asked but @fede.bubble, @josh, @kate.mcnally my understanding of what is going on under the hood is that Bubble is translating our visual elements from the editor (text, button, input, image etc) into code, obviously.
Why not give us the ability to do that the other way around?
Why not build us out an area where we start with an AI like Claude Sonnet 3.7 to build us out a UI in code that follows rules to keep it compatible with how Bubble’s visual elements are coded? Then. when we’ve got it just how we want it we say, “looks good, please put it into visual elements” and Bubble does the translation the opposite way from code to visual elements?
I believe it’s much harder than it sounds of course, but, having done a 24 hour challenge to build an AI logo app on my channel recently (shameless plug for No Code Academy), it reminded me how much I love to build in Bubble… except for the UI. Actually I like building UI’s okay but it’s so time consuming compared to the one hour it takes me now to build the 15 UI screens for an app using an AI tool.
It would 2-3x the speed at which apps can be built on Bubble. Cheers.
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The team is actually working on having this up and running. They’ll be sharing more in the next 2 weeks
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Sick! Amazing news, cannot wait!
btw I’m assuming you’ve tried Bubble’s AI Features | Bubble already?
Anyone see the email from BuildCamp with Gregory saying he’s leaving Bubble for Cursor AI?
I’m quite happy with Bubble. I’d rather pay Bubble and let them worry about the servers, backend security, etc.
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I’ve seen it, I was rather shocked. So is he pivoting away from no-code into programming? Don’t you need some level of programming knowledge to be proficient in Cursor/Windsurf? Even if a prompt generated the code, how can someone such as myself who doesn’t know how to code make edits to the app?
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Yes he has a background in traditional coding
Very interesting.
No, but doesn’t surprise me that people are leaving bubble for another platform. Doesn’t mean they know something others don’t, it just means they have decided it is best for them. I could imagine there may be more behind the decision than meets the eye.
I’d be happier if they shored up some things, but I personally don’t have plans to leave Bubble for some AI app builder…soon enough Bubble will figure out what is the key that unlocks their platform (some of us already know what that is).