"I don't know how to code, went from a career blocker to a $6 billion pitch deck."
Lovable just proved that vibe coding isn't a meme—it's a movement worth billions. We're diving into how AI-powered builders are raising at unicorn valuations, plus Google's latest Veo 3.1 updates and real stories from devs shipping apps without traditional coding.
Hello Builders! 👋
🔥 Today's Top Story
Lovable is eyeing a $6 billion valuation. This matters because it's validation that AI-first development is not just a cute experiment but worth billions. The market is betting that natural language is the new IDE.
But here's the thing: a $6B valuation means expectations are insane. They'll need to prove this isn't just prototyping theater but actual production-grade software. For builders, it's a signal to take these tools seriously – or build competing ones while the iron's hot (many are already).
🚀 Ships & Launches
Gemini's Veo 3.1 Goes Multi-Image - Upload multiple reference images with your video prompts to create more nuanced AI-generated worlds and scenes.
Deep Research Hits All Mobile - Gemini's research feature now available on Android and iOS, lets you choose sources for comprehensive reports.
v0 Shows Its Work - Finally some transparency: v0 now displays time worked, files modified, lines changed, and credits used after each generation.
Alibaba's Qwen App Goes Free - Alibaba challenges ChatGPT's subscription model with a completely free AI assistant app for consumers.
Pickleball Stats Built Entirely AI - Team shipped a full App Store app with Wordle-style stat sharing, built the entire concept, UX, and UI with AI.
YouTube to Thread in 12 Minutes - Developer vibecoded a YT-to-thread converter in Nova without writing a single API route, pure product shipping.
📺 Learn & Build
Zero to iOS App in 3 Days - Real talk about vibe coding your first Swift app with AI tools when you've never touched Xcode before.
Chain Veo and NanoBanana Together - Paige Bailey shows how to pipe Google's video and image models through Gemini for some wild multimodal workflows.
Run Python Inside Gemini - The Code Execution tool in AI Studio lets the model write and run actual Python for math and data analysis.
Vibe Code a Fridge Recipe App - Tutorial on building an app that turns photos of your fridge into meal suggestions, because why not.
Codex Usage Stats Menubar - macOS menubar app that tracks your OpenAI Codex usage stats so you know exactly how much that autocomplete addiction costs.
Censorship Removal for LLMs - Strips safety filters from language models without retraining, which is either liberation or chaos depending on your threat model.
💬 Builder Conversations
Vibe Coders Build Nothing Real - Pat Walls fires back at critics with DMs proving people ship actual products daily with AI coding tools.
ChatGPT Codex Can't Handle Long Files - Félix reports GPT-5.1-Codex breaks on files over 180 lines, missing closing tags and corrupting entire files.
Telling Codex About Margins Again - James hits iteration five explaining the same margin issue, capturing the reality of AI pair programming perfectly.
AI Needs a Good Mentor - Nawaf argues vibe coding fails without guidance—AI is smart but blind, requiring constant mentorship for real results.
Nobody Wants AI in Firefox - Mozilla's AI integration plans spark 733-comment HN debate about whether browsers need more AI features at all.
📰 Industry Moves
The Anthropic Story Gets Messy - Developer analysis questions whether this "first AI-orchestrated campaign" is genuine threat intelligence or marketing disguised as security research.
Coinbase Breach Timeline Exposed - Engineer claims recordings prove Coinbase knew about security breach months before public disclosure, raising questions about incident response transparency.
Nine AI Models Render Clocks - Brian Moore's site generates a new clock design every minute using nine different AI models in rotation.
⚡ Quick Links
One More Thing...
Lovable hitting a $6B valuation while "serious devs" are still dunking on vibe coding is peak 2025 energy. Meanwhile someone just shipped an iOS app in 3 days with zero Swift knowledge and is probably making money while the debate rages on.
What are you shipping this week—vibe coded or otherwise?
Keep shipping,
P.S. If you're still arguing about whether vibe coding is "real development," you're having the wrong conversation. The real question is: did it ship and does it work?