Bubble’s AI vision: Beyond app generation

[josh]

Hi everyone!

If it wasn’t clear six months ago, it is now: AI is going to play a central role in the future of software development. But as we’ve been saying for a long time, AI isn’t going to replace visual development — instead, the two are going to supercharge one another.

We started with our AI app generator, which is already creating beautiful, fully functional apps that are ready to be scaled. But we’re far, far from done.

Today, we’re excited to share our vision for the future as it relates to AI. Here’s a short video that explores how we plan to integrate AI into the Bubble platform — not just for initial app generation, but as a true partner throughout the entire development lifecycle.

AI Visual Development: The Future of Bubble AI

We know a lot of you have played with the other AI app generators in the market, and we think you’ll agree: Many of them can give you a decent prototype in minutes, but it doesn’t take long to reach the point where you’re stuck with 80% of an app and 100% of the problems.

That’s not the future of Bubble AI.

Instead, our plan is for Bubble AI to support you across three critical stages:

1. Generate (available today): Quick app creation, with a foundation across design, data, and logic you can‌ build upon.

2. Iterate (our team’s next area of focus): AI support that strengthens and speeds up your abilities while keeping you in control, including chatbot-initiated changes, context-aware suggestions, and intelligent debugging that shows you how and why a bug was fixed.

3. Scale (available today): Enterprise-grade infrastructure that’s ready when your user base grows.

In short, we’re combining the hands-on control of visual development with the speed and intelligence of AI. You’ll keep the drag-and-drop simplicity you love while gaining powerful AI support that works alongside you, not a black box that takes over.

Your first question is probably when we expect to build these features out. The team is exploring the best ways to start bringing AI to the editor for supercharged iteration and we’re confident you’ll start to see many of these changes this year, but we don’t have a more detailed timeline just yet. Keep an eye on our monthly forum updates!

We want to hear what you think

This isn’t a product launch — it’s a window into our vision and approach. We want to hear your thoughts on this direction as we continue to develop our AI capabilities.

Join the conversation here in the forum or on social — we’re listening closely to your feedback and can’t wait to hear what you think. What excites you? What questions do you have? What features would be most valuable to you?

Better yet, show us what you’ve built! Tag us on social with #BubbleAI.

— Josh and Emmanuel

[randomanon]

Watched the video. Looks like it’s on the right track. My main concern ironically is seemingly unrelated to the AI features, but only at face value.

Basically, the “Build” button is very spooky to me because of how unreliable the Undo button is and how opaque the changelog is (compared to something like even Google Docs history). Like in Claude there will be different versions you can instantly switch between and be confident that 100% of the code in version 5 is version 5 and 100% of the code in version 6 is version 6. You guys have to make sure that level of observability is in there if you’re going to be making sweeping changes to the app.

I would ideally like something like a “sandbox” or “preview” where I can copy/paste or accept changes for individual expressions/elements/data etc without having to worry about what changes it’s going to make to my app overall. There is always the very small risk that a change was made that wasn’t documented in the version control. So think really hard about that other 20% before you launch this.

This is definitely the correct direction if you manage to pull it off.

[georgecollier]

Great update!

[hobum91]

What a nice vision and I can not wait to see it..!
Your plan 2(Iterate) would be very helpful for us who are suffering from repeating simple work..!

[senecadatabase]

All exciting news.

I think the visual editor is the game changer that others can’t compete with.

I’ve tried the other AI platforms and I’m not sure I would say they even get you 80% of the way there.

Thanks for the update!

[jake.berry]

Love it guys

[tarasmuzon]

This is great! Focusing on smaller “components” vs. “build me an entire app” is a great approach.

AI still hallucinates and loses context when chats get long, and having this smaller scope will likely make it so much better to work with than other AI-builders.

[Jici]

I agree that the new AI version look promising but… Bubble is not “ready” for AI from my point of view. What I mean is that there’s so many limitation with Bubble actually that I doubt AI will be able to answer correctly all the request.
A good example is the search bar. There’s a lot of limitation with search DB actually. Even AI will have trouble to answer complex request! I think that Bubble need to improve on this side really fast to help AI to go from 80% to 100% like you you wish…

[gerbertdelangen]

Looks good.

Feedback, although integrating AI is important, is it possible to spent some time solving long standing issues like:

• the debugger pausing at a step that has already been executed.
• no backend error handling
• workflows steps executed out of order
• not possible to edit conditions without having to remove part of the condition.
• Issues not showing up in the issue checker

And please do not roll out the new workflow tab without adressing the issues mentioned in the numerous replies in this topic: https://forum.bubble.io/t/exciting-news-new-workflow-tab-to-become-default-experience

[Jici]

@gerbertdelangen

workflows steps executed out of order

Not an issue but expected behavior and already well documented to solve this with custom event and result of step… Bubble try to speed thing so if a step can be processed earlier, this is done and this is a good thing from my point of view.

However, I wish that Bubble bring what they show at BubbleCon with workflow editor (loop, parallel processing…)

[gerbertdelangen]

Definitely an issue and well documented here on the forum that custom events do not always work.

Yeah indeed, eagerly waiting for the looping, the option to choose between parallel and non parallel processing and more visual if statements. Actually I would have expected these features to be added before the new workflow tab replaces the old one.

[moabe.leite]

I would like to know when bubble will finish this new UI changes, because this data view it seems to be very exciting

[ed727]

Curious where the training came from. AI doesn’t “think” - it just follows patterns and relationships it saw in information that was previously fed into it.

So in the video the AI was asked to create a job board – how did the AI know what a job board looks like, the typical layouts and features, and the typical setup in Bubble?

If the AI was trained on sites built within Bubble, can a user “turn off” the ability of Bubble to train its AI with that user’s site?

[divypratap73]

Wow! Great things are coming to Bubble!

My eyes were stuck on the new Data UI (which has been waiting for an update for a long time).
Building data types with prompts is another cherry on the cake!

So excited about the future of Bubble!

And what Nicolas said about AI-generated code and its problem of getting stuck in a constant loop of errors doesn’t stand a chance against visual building + Bubble AI.

[sudsy]

Impressive AI-generated facsimile of Nicolas Carroll.

[rome1]

AI is great and all, but latency spikes of 10-20seconds will make any AI generated app useless Is anyone from Bubble looking at this? The status detector isn’t noting an “outage” but its functionally the same

[kunigunda]

hi @ed727 - fyi your question has been asked multiple times and bubble has repeatedly ignored it so i wouldn’t hold my breath if i were you (but who knows, maybe you’ll have better luck). from the experts’ responses to my question, it appears to be a given that bubble AI is trained on bubble sites (and given bubble’s complete lack of transparency, it’s even possible that bubble AI has access to user / app data which looks like a serious compliance issue for apps with European users… but i’m no legal expert).
it appears that the only way to ‘turn off’ bubble AI is to leave bubble

Still wondering: Does bubble use our apps when training its AI and is there a bubble AI privacy policy hiding somewhere…?

[J805]

I’ve seen several clients come to me with AI-generated Bubble apps, thinking they’re nearly production-ready. In reality, these apps often have major issues—security vulnerabilities, broken workflows, and almost non-existent responsiveness—most of which the clients aren’t even aware of.

AI is a great tool, and I really like its ability to quickly generate test data for the database. But right now, it’s being pushed into areas where users—and even the tool itself—aren’t ready yet, which makes the output pretty useless in many cases.

In my opinion, more realistic and valuable applications of AI would be:

• Improving the API Connector by simplifying setup and debugging.
• Using AI for REGEX support to generate and explain patterns.
• Creating a component library with AI-generated, fully responsive components that I can drop into my app.

These kinds of features would offer meaningful productivity gains without compromising quality.

[mo.salama]

Very excited about this vision!

@josh I’d suggest thinking ahead to day 3: enhancing Bubble’s AI capabilities to easily build AI-powered apps. Consider features like MCP protocol support, integrating LangChain with Bubble, or creating an AI agent node that natively leverages workflows.

[CodePerson]

This is awesome news! And I like the vision!
Cheers to Josh and Emmanuel and Bubble!