What do you use to vibe-code applications?
I have used a few products to vibe-code my applications. The first one I used was Chatgpt. From this, I created my first application and it had a very average UI. I was using nextjs for frontend and backend, so for me, the backend part took time but it was decent.
The second product which is good enough for me currently is Gemini. This creates a very good UI and backend at the same time. The first time I used it, it was a super upgrade in the UI. I also used Lovable to create one practice project, but I don't know why I did not used again.
I also heard people's suggestion of using different AI's like claude, cursor etc. but moving in to a different platform has some friction.
What AI is most used or easiest to build an application? I recently heard of a new AI called Emergent, which creates the whole application with a single prompt.
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My chat gpt frontends look terrible. Does gemini actually build clean responsive UIs without much tweaking?
Promomix
can you actually edit emergents code line by line or do you havt to reprompt everything?
Bababot
Lovable was great for UIs but my backend got super messy. Are you deploying you gemini apps straight to vercel?
Try claude for Next.js App Router code. A friend recommended it to me because chat gpt keeps giving old, outdated code for my routes but claude gets it right on the first try.
i use chatgpt to explain logic and gemini to write the actual CSS. mixiing two AIs works best for me.
I would recommend you to try sonnet inside cursor. It context matches your whole codebase so you dont lose progress like on web chatgpt.
Buffup.AI
I loved this breakdown of different tools. Its crazy how fast the ecosystem is moving from simple chat prompts to full stack generation.