WEEKLY WINSHello everyone and welcome back to another Friday of Wins!
This is your chance to take a pause and share with the community something that went great, something you are proud of, or simply something that made you happy this week
This week Iād like to celebrate Bubbleās longest stretch of platform stability Iāve seen since I joined!
And I know there will always be a group of people that will argue you canāt take victory laps just for doing what you are supposed to, but I think itās awesome that the platform team has come such a long way in 2025 to make sure we donāt repeat past mistakes and enable the next wave of builders in our platform 
I finally pulled the trigger on āOptimize Appā on an app with my most important clientā¦..after 2 years 
Tests are good so far. Hereās hoping I broke nothing!
You know the sayingā¦
move fast and break things.
The first time I used the optimize feature, I thought I had broken my entire app. It turns out that it was mostly my fault. Iāve used it since and never had a problem.
This week, I tried the latest AI builder on the market. $200 later, I still had a lot of little issues and would have had to add another $100 at least to MAYBE fix them. Although that would have still been a gamble.
It worked great, until it didnāt. I had so many little issues, and some of them the builder got in an endless loop trying to fix.
I said that to say I missed having the visual editor that Bubble offers. Itās so much easier to fix little things. Plus, I have complete control over the design without having to explain 100 times and go through 381 modifications to get close to what I had in mind.
Those builders are great for anyone who doesnāt know how to use Bubble. If you know Bubble, itās really a no-brainer to use it.
Other than that, it was a very busy week. I am implementing QR scanning into my app now for my latest venture.
Had to push back my second app going live until Monday because I was very busy with other things and out of town for a couple of days on business. Monday is my deadline though
I find myself going through documentation a lot more when coding with AI than I do building with Bubble. AI is just too accommodating and that often leads to unintuitive or unoptimized code. Most models do generate some really great for UI now. Itās everything else that needs hand holding.
I was fixing some endpoint envelopes and its a good thing i asked for sample responses to check its work. Overall still great since i still donāt need to manually write code now.
I was bored and tried the newest AI builder (Floot) just to see if I could recreate the current app Iām building.
It worked pretty well initially, until I started adding features.
Itās great out of the gate for like a to-do list.
It would try and fix something, and I would prompt it that it needed to change the element to an HTML5 element, and it would be like āthatās a brilliant ideaāā¦
then it would mess that up.
Then I would tell it to add certain code to fix something, and it would be like, āYes, thatās brilliant, ā then it would mess that up.
I ended up thinking I could probably just build the app from code quicker than the AI could get everything right.
It was a headache trying to get things right once I started adding features.
The AI builders are great for simple apps. The problem is when you start adding features.
Iāve tried all the AI builders. I tried Google Studio before this, and it was a nightmare. The worst I think of them all.
My suggestion is for anyone to just take the time and learn Bubble. Iām still learning, but it has a lot of benefits that are unmatched by any current AI builder.
Hopefully, Bubble will get its AI working better. It leaves a lot to be desired right nowā¦but even without the AI working well, I still prefer Bubble.
