I rebuilt my app with AI. Here's what I learned.

0:00 can you really build an app with AI 0:02 prompts alone that's what a lot of AI 0:04 tools promise these days so I decided to 0:06 try one out I fed it promps to rebuild 0:08 my company's web app that our Engineers 0:10 spent hundreds of hours putting together 0:13 in this video I'm going to show you the 0:14 result and show you how AI app Builders 0:17 might fit into your workflow let's get 0:19 started this is x-ray tools it's an 0:21 automation search engine where you can 0:23 search whatever tool you're using now so 0:25 we could say 0:27 slack and maybe Zoom 0:31 those two tools are X-ray certified and 0:34 they're on a whole bunch of automation 0:36 providers so the real value of this tool 0:39 is when I click on view automation 0:40 abilities you can see all of the 0:42 triggers actions and searches available 0:46 on every automation provider that's 0:48 pretty cool if you're wondering where 0:50 you should build an automation for slack 0:54 in this case it gives you all the 0:56 information you need and you can go 0:58 directly to each automation providers 1:00 page that talks about slack so you can 1:03 really see how it all works but this 1:06 took an engineer hundreds of hours to 1:08 build and I wanted to see if with these 1:11 modern AI Builders now we could actually 1:14 rebuild it in just a few days so I 1:17 opened up lovable looking at the home 1:19 screen here you see lovable. deev says 1:22 idea to app in seconds it's your 1:25 superhuman full stack engineer now I was 1:27 very skeptical when I landed on this 1:30 landing page cuz it says it can do a lot 1:34 but in just a few hours I was able to 1:36 prototype a real automation search 1:39 engine that actually pulled from a 1:41 database now I'm not even writing any 1:44 code you can see here on the left that I 1:46 went back and forth with this AI in a 1:50 bunch of different messages to try to 1:52 get this connected to my superbase which 1:55 is a no code database application that's 1:58 similar to Zan or MySQL superbase is 2:02 really a super scalable database and 2:05 lovable. deev connects directly to 2:08 superbase so let's actually give it a 2:11 try if I search slack here boom I am 2:14 shown slack and slackbot you can see all 2:17 of the different triggers actions and 2:19 searches and you'll notice that I added 2:21 13 different automation providers 2:24 there's new automation providers all the 2:26 time so I wanted to not only incorporate 2:29 the ones that we already had like zapier 2:31 and make but also add some new ones like 2:34 pipe dream and Trey and unito or even 2:38 Parabola Lindy Bine relay and flow wise 2:41 these are all different like AI based 2:44 automation workflow Builders so there's 2:46 a lot of nuance here and we're trying to 2:48 make x-ray tools better so I can go 2:51 ahead and click inside of slack and I'm 2:53 shown all of the different Integrations 2:56 on these tools now it's not perfect so a 2:59 product is only as good as the data you 3:01 give it in this case in if there's a 3:05 bunch of abilities that don't really 3:08 look very good and they kind of don't 3:12 make sense like notify new Twitter 3:15 followers is not a slack ability email a 3:18 message to slack is an ability Daily 3:21 Post about Fitbit doesn't really make 3:23 sense so it's not perfect but it's a 3:25 really good prototyping tool and I can 3:28 even click on view integration and it 3:30 takes me directly to in this case 3:32 parabis page about slack I was even able 3:35 to have it say here here's some confetti 3:39 that's something that I personally just 3:40 think is so fun am I going to replace a 3:43 full stack engineer with this chat-based 3:45 developer probably not but is it going 3:48 to be the fastest way to go from a piece 3:51 of text to a functioning prototype it 3:54 just might be lovable is extremely good 3:57 at going from zero to like 6 or 7 it's 4:01 not going to be perfect but it's going 4:02 to be a really good prototype and if 4:05 you're trying to do things that are 4:06 technical it's going to fall short but 4:09 if you're trying to do things that are 4:10 aesthetic that you're just trying to 4:12 show visually and you want to talk about 4:15 the way that something should look it's 4:17 going to be able to build something with 4:19 code based off of a description that you 4:21 give it so things that are aesthetic 4:23 like confetti or the way a border should 4:26 look or the way that some different 4:28 elements on the screen should be 4:30 visually arranged lovable is going to be 4:32 really good for that and if you're a Dev 4:35 you can just copy and paste that that's 4:36 going to be way easier than trying to 4:39 translate a figma diagram by hand but at 4:42 the end of the day I would still 4:44 consider this to be a prototyping tool 4:46 this is not going to be production ready 4:49 for anything that's that's really 4:50 meaningful you're still better off using 4:52 softer or using a low code or no code 4:55 Builder to build an interface for 4:58 something as opposed to being completely 5:00 reliant on the AI prompt to actually 5:04 generate usable code if you don't know 5:07 how to code and you don't know how to 5:08 modify code I would stay away from these 5:11 tools like lovable or bolt. new they 5:14 would be really great to prototype but 5:16 you'll quickly find that your hands are 5:18 tied when it comes to getting it that 5:20 last mile to try to make it actually 5:22 usable something that you can actually 5:24 publish publicly that could be useful 5:28 for your audience it's just just not 5:30 going to get there yet we'll check back 5:31 in 6 months and see but right now stick 5:34 with the no code Builder and the 5:36 limitations that come with that because 5:37 you will be able to get to a good point 5:39 where you can finally click publish at 5:41 the end of the day if this video helped 5:44 you out give us a like And subscribe to 5:46 the channel for more Ai and 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