Vibe Coding Takes Over: Build Apps by Just Describing Them

Forget syntax errors—the only bug in "vibe coding" is when the AI doesn't vibe with your vision.

Hello Builders! 👋

Google AI Studio just launched a feature that lets you build apps by describing what you want in plain English, and developers are already conjuring up Halloween event apps and more without writing traditional code.

Meanwhile, Europe's new multilingual LLM is making waves, and OpenAI dropped open-weight safety models into research preview.

Europe just dropped EuroLLM, an open-source language model that actually speaks all 24 official EU languages. Not "sort of works if you squint" multilingual support – we're talking proper Maltese, Irish, and Bulgarian alongside the usual suspects.

While Silicon Valley keeps training models that think the world speaks English with a side of Spanish, the EU said "hold my Aperol Spritz" and built something that treats Finnish and Portuguese as first-class citizens.

With all the AI regulation drama happening in Brussels, having a homegrown alternative that isn't beholden to OpenAI or Anthropic's API terms feels genuinely important. Plus, it's actually open source – you can download the weights and run it yourself, which is increasingly rare in 2025's "open source but not really" landscape.

OpenAI drops gpt-oss-safeguard - Two open-weight reasoning models for safety classification. Finally, open weights from OpenAI—hell has officially frozen over.

Google AI Studio gets 'vibe coding' - Build AI apps just by describing them. No-code meets AI—either revolutionary or another way to generate unmaintainable spaghetti code.

GitHub launches Agent HQ - Access multiple AI coding agents beyond Copilot, including OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude. Competition in your IDE is good, actually.

v0 wants you to throw IRL meetups ⚠️ - Apply to host v0 events and get credits plus swag. Building community around a code generator feels very 2025.

Grammarly becomes Superhuman - Merging with Coda and Superhuman Mail, plus new AI assistant Superhuman Go. When your writing tool absorbs an email client, you know consolidation is real.

Adventures in Vibe Coding: I Conjured a Halloween Events Web App Just by Chatting With AI - CNET dives into "vibe coding" where you just chat your way to a working app. The future is weird and I'm here for it.

How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Agreeing With Everything You Say - Alex Friedman shares the trick to make ChatGPT actually push back on your ideas instead of being an annoying yes-man.

Top 5 Text-to-Speech Open Source Models - Open-source TTS models that actually sound human. No more robot voices that make your ears bleed.

API Development for Web Apps and Data Products - Solid primer on building APIs that don't suck. Because nothing ruins a Monday like debugging someone else's REST nightmare.

Engineer ships 56 apps in 6 months, hits $10K MRR - Full-time job, newborn baby, 4 hours daily. Pat Walls breaks down the math on what's actually possible.

Pat's reality check on indie success - $10K MRR in 6 months working part-time is top 1% territory. Reset your expectations accordingly.

Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste - Building random stuff teaches you what works. 259 comments on HN debating if we've lost this art.

AI video launches are getting ridiculous - Zero public models in early 2023, now multiple releases weekly. Hailuo 2.3 just dropped via Krea.

Someone needs to build a vibe coding idea hub - Sam Liu can't find a good community for collecting cursor-worthy project ideas. Sounds like a weekend build.

Mem0 raises $24M from YC, Peak XV and Basis Set - Building the memory layer for AI apps. Finally, someone's tackling the "who the hell are you again?" problem in AI conversations.

Phia's AI shopping assistant launches - Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni building an AI to help you shop and save. Another shopping agent enters the arena.

Sam Altman predicts 'legitimate AI researcher' by 2028 - OpenAI betting big on test-time compute scaling. Bold timeline, but we've heard bold timelines before from Sam.

Vinod Khosla proposes 10% government stake in companies - His solution for AGI wealth redistribution. VCs discovering socialism when the robots come for everyone's jobs is chef's kiss.

Raindrop AI's semantic monitoring pipeline - Using Gemini 2.5 Flash for query expansion and structured outputs to monitor AI agent performance at scale. Processing millions of events—this is the unglamorous infrastructure work that actually matters.

Elloe AI wants to be the 'immune system' for AI - Fact-checking AI outputs and ensuring regulatory compliance. Basically a bouncer for your LLM, which honestly every production system desperately needs right now.

Super Teacher's AI tutor for elementary schools - Voice-based animated tutors for kids. The voice interface angle is smart—turns out children are better at talking than typing. Who knew.

a16z AI Announcement - Latest from a16z on AI developments

AI Research Update - Dr. Singularity shares recent AI findings

Character.AI is banning minors from AI character chats - Platform restricts youth access to AI conversations

Senators propose banning teens from using AI chatbots - New legislation targets underage chatbot usage

What are you building this month? Not the grand vision—what's the actual feature or experiment you're shipping in the next two weeks? Hit reply and tell me. I read every response, and the best ones might make it into a future edition.

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