App Store in minutes? This Replit update is unreal

Hello Builders! 👋

Replit just killed the "I need to learn Swift/Kotlin" excuse. Their new mobile app deployment feature lets you ship to actual app stores without touching Xcode or Android Studio. No Mac required, no gradle nightmares.

Here's what matters: You can literally code a mobile app in your browser and have it on the App Store same day. Replit handles the entire build pipeline, code signing, and store submission. This is the vibe coding dream, idea to published app without context-switching into mobile dev hell.

The cynical take? It's probably using React Native or similar under the hood, so you're not building truly native apps. But honestly, for 90% of builder projects, who cares? Speed to market beats pixel-perfect native animations. This democratizes mobile in a way that actually matters.

TranslateGemma: Google's Open Translation Models - New Gemma 3-based translation models in 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes, fully open source for multilingual communication.

Flux 2 Klein Generates Images Sub-Second - Finally, an image model that doesn't make you go grab coffee while waiting—under one second generation with reference image support.

Anthropic Drops Economic Index - Fourth edition introduces "economic primitives" tracking task complexity and education level for AI usage patterns.

AI Agents Roadmap Worth Following - Maryam Miradi cuts through the noise with a practical path from LLM fundamentals to actual working agents.

GPU Memory for Fine-Tuning - Google's Shir Meir Lador explains why your training script keeps OOMing and how to actually fix it.

Vibe Coding with Cursor - ZDNET puts AI coding tools through a real beginner test to see if the hype matches reality.

LinkedIn Job Hunt Automation - AutoGen agent that searches LinkedIn jobs and messages hiring managers on command, because apparently we're automating networking now.

AI That Ships Businesses - Type an idea and get a live Stripe-integrated business with backend and research handled, which sounds insane until you realize it's probably true.

Zoomers Outbuilding Millennials Now - Marc Andreessen claims AI-native Gen Z learned from YouTube and has zero fear of shipping fast.

Software's YouTube Moment - a16z argues AI democratized leverage for creators the same way YouTube did for video production fifteen years ago.

We Murdered Stack Overflow - Developer argues gatekeeping culture and duplicate-marking drove everyone to ChatGPT instead of fixing the community toxicity.

Apple Lost AI Race - The Verge explores how Apple's embarrassing Intelligence rollout still resulted in winning through hardware sales and potential Google deals.

Agent Overload Problem - Developer admits working with multiple AI agents simultaneously makes her head spin, questioning the multi-agent future everyone's building.

OpenAI Safety Lead Jumps Ship - Andrea Vallone, who handled mental health chatbot conversations, heads to Anthropic's alignment team.

AI Lab Musical Chairs - Three top execs abruptly left Mira Murati's Thinking Machines in what sounds like a messy breakup.

Higgsfield Hits $1.3B Valuation - Ex-Snap exec's AI video startup reopened Series A for $80M more on $200M revenue run rate.

RAM Shortage Hits Wallets - AI server demand is driving memory prices up across consumer and enterprise markets.

Google Antigravity: Agent-First IDE - Google's new IDE positions you as the architect while AI does the typing, moving beyond Copilot's autocomplete paradigm.

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Runs Models Locally - $130 add-on board with 8GB RAM lets your Pi 5 run gen AI models without cloud dependency.

Replit making mobile apps brain-dead simple is wild timing with TranslateGemma dropping, you could literally ship a translation app to the App Store this weekend. No Xcode, no Swift, just vibes and determination.

What are you building or shipping this week?

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you've been putting off that mobile app idea because you didn't want to learn Swift, you're officially out of excuses. Fire up Replit and let us know when it hits the App Store.