Lovable AI App Builder: The AI Coding Tool That Will Take My Job (and what I plan to do about it)

0:02 I'm Shook and I'm tired it's halfast 9 0:04 on Sunday and I've spent another day 0:06 building things and having my mind blown 0:09 by what generative AI can do and this 0:11 feels old hat at this point to say this 0:13 I want to look back in a minute at some 0:14 of the original stuff I was doing in 0:16 probably 21 22 with mid journey and look 0:19 at the difference since then but I've 0:21 had my uh trapo moment it's happened 0:22 I've felt the trapo fall from under me 0:25 all the foundations I had around what my 0:27 career was going to be my prospects the 0:29 work I was doing in and around 0:30 generative Ai and marketing advertising 0:32 design in the last couple of weeks the 0:34 speed at which I've been impacted by the 0:37 stuff has has has hit me and it's really 0:39 shocking um I've been playing around 0:41 with the autonomous coding agents like 0:43 replit 01 uh lovable one of my favorites 0:47 I had ignored them for a long time 0:48 because I thought I was kind of on top 0:50 of all this and I was using chat gbt or 0:52 Claude just prompting that and chatting 0:54 with that about code changes but the 0:56 minute I started touching these 0:58 autonomous coding agents 1:00 everything changed I've always built 1:02 things right so whether it's websites 1:04 automations crms I used to be a video 1:07 game project manager for several years 1:08 you know I've done done a whole bunch of 1:10 that but I've never been a developer 1:12 I've never sat down with code and 1:13 enjoyed myself over the last few years 1:16 I've certainly been using Claude and 1:17 chat GPT and others to help me prompt me 1:20 with like CSS tweaks and maybe a tiny 1:22 bit of JavaScript or trying to decode 1:24 something debug an issue but that's as 1:26 far as I could go there was always a 1:29 hard limit on 1:30 how much development I could do but now 1:32 I can build anything I've ever wanted to 1:35 build by myself with plain language 1:37 English and some basic foundations 1:39 around how software and applications 1:41 work and if I can do this now imagine 1:44 where the world will be in another 6 1:45 months where at the very beginning of 1:46 this phenomenal shift is about to 1:48 immediately affect me my family my 1:50 business and I've never been so excited 1:52 so I want to draw a parallel here with 1:54 where mid Journey was in the summer of 1:56 2022 just under 3 years ago these are 1:58 the very first images that I made in the 2:01 very first version of mid journey I got 2:03 onto it very early and this stuff blew 2:05 my mind oh my God I could type anything 2:07 in and it could appear on the screen and 2:08 for some reason summer 2022 B really 2:11 wanted to know about Soviet era 2:13 astronauts floating in the Blackness of 2:14 space um he has no face instead vibrant 2:17 colorful flowers are bursting from his 2:19 visor and now let's see what I've I've 2:21 just taken that exact same prompt and 2:22 put it in here and look what we've got 2:24 look at the difference and that's in two 2:26 years and actually this is E before two 2:28 years it was capable of doing this stuff 2:31 absolutely amazing weirdly though I can 2:33 also take that same prompt and now 2:35 through not even any technology I can 2:37 Chuck it into a completely open source 2:39 model and press enter a bunch of times 2:43 and what used to take minutes after 2:44 minutes at a time I can churn out these 2:46 4 8 12 images costing me about one to 2 2:51 p using uh Black Forest Labs instantly 2:54 create imagery I could take that and 2:56 change it it's I don't know a spaceship 2:59 ship in the background anyway none of 3:02 this is new but I wanted to draw the 3:05 parallel here between what we can do 3:07 then to now with just image generation 3:09 and what I can do right now with app 3:11 builds compared to what I'll be doing in 3:13 another six months and just kind of 3:15 further Hammer home the point that what 3:17 what we can do with today's app building 3:19 tools will look primitive in another 6 3:21 months over the last few weeks I spent 3:23 dozens of hours inside lovable building 3:25 and playing around with tools for myself 3:27 and for my clients and my family let's 3:28 have a look at some of them now this is 3:29 a home extension cost calculator that I 3:31 was considering maybe I could sell this 3:33 to construction firms it could live on 3:34 their website have a Google tag attached 3:37 on the back end just a little lead gen 3:39 thing here gets people through to A 3:41 really lovely you basically get rid it 3:44 qualifies people if they're time wasters 3:45 or not and gives them this great result 3:47 on the end BOS BOS BOS book a free 3:49 consultation request your quote Oh yeah 3:52 this is just a a stoic voice so I try 3:54 and journal a lot but I often wish I 3:56 could just speak into a machine this 3:58 thing now is like a voice powerered 4:00 stoic Journal so as you talk to it it's 4:02 always specifically for fathers as well 4:04 as you talk into it it's going to 4:05 progress how stoic you've been how your 4:06 mood's been it's going to track all of 4:08 your your Reflections it's going to 4:10 attach your entries into the journal to 4:13 like stoic philosophy and be like oh you 4:15 were very stoic today that's literally 4:16 from a rough idea um this idea is some 4:19 kind of wizard that helps you once 4:21 you've built your website analyze it to 4:23 make sure that is actually fully ready 4:25 to have Google ads run on it so it runs 4:27 compliance it runs through setups here 4:30 uh this one is something so for a friend 4:33 of mine he he's a he wants to get people 4:36 to use this interactive calculator on 4:37 his website as a bit of a kind of 4:39 curiosity Le lead magnet again you fill 4:41 out this stuff it looks all beautiful it 4:43 matches his branding exactly we worked 4:45 on this together this actually took 4:46 quite a lot of time to get it perfect 4:47 but look how amazing this is he's going 4:49 to get this deployed on his website uh 4:52 this was me working with my Google ads 4:55 assistant buddy to see if we could make 4:57 a tool that could somehow plug into the 4:59 Google ads API and help us with one of 5:01 the biggest chores we have which is 5:03 negative keyword exclusions of of Search 5:06 terms uh and this thing would actually 5:07 use AI reasoning to say hm I don't think 5:09 we should have the word free in there 5:11 what do you think yes or no this 5:12 actually just requires the API which I 5:14 now have access to this tool could be 5:16 built tomorrow I've wanted this tool my 5:18 whole 5:18 career but um I don't know if anyone 5:20 does it and if they do they're charging 5:21 a ton of money for it uh this was a 5:24 Garden Room visualizer so you can 5:26 imagine this sat on a website helps you 5:29 build out the price of your garden room 5:32 I want a pitched roof with engineered 5:33 wood oh it's coming up price is coming 5:35 up a 5:36 bit uh I want the electric package and 5:40 then I'll get my detailed quote this is 5:42 all built autonomously with off of the 5:45 back of a handful of sentences of ideas 5:47 from me got fully interactive game here 5:49 that I made with my kids you come in you 5:52 have a feathered 5:53 cow uh a glowing feathered 5:56 cow that will evolve out meanwhile over 5:58 here you can buy new types of animals 6:01 you can have uh uh achievements you can 6:04 even change up the words all AI 6:05 generated words the image is being AI 6:08 generated right now once it's done the 6:09 description of the animal is AI 6:12 generated and the name of it is AI 6:15 generated I can add that to the zoo this 6:17 stuff is just working mostly uh off of 6:20 voice like just me talking to the 6:21 talking into lovable doing this and my 6:24 final one I got so tired of not really 6:26 of having all these ideas and knowwhere 6:27 to write them down and got sick of just 6:29 putting them in the WhatsApp group or 6:30 into my notes app I just created an idea 6:33 logger which can be a rush idea or or or 6:36 can be thought out so let's come up with 6:38 one now a web app that helps you figure 6:41 out which lights to buy to look good on 6:44 YouTube let's transcribe my 6:47 idea there's the transcription and now 6:49 it's going to come up with some 6:50 additional things for me to think about 6:52 so components that will be needed the 6:54 follow-up questions to expand the idea 6:56 I'm not going to deal with this now I'm 6:57 just going to send it to my clickup if 6:58 we flick over there you can see it will 7:00 arrive any second uh in my click up 7:03 YouTube lighting recommendation tool 7:05 with all of that text in there for me to 7:07 come revisit this later maybe there 7:09 another idea and then I threw in a 7:11 rushed version as well if I didn't want 7:12 to think about it at all a recycling 7:15 center login tool to keep track of all 7:18 of the cars that come in by reading the 7:20 number plates so that someone doesn't 7:22 have to do it with human hands and 7:24 eyes and the rush mode is there's no 7:27 additional thinking it's just literally 7:28 taking my things sticking over to click 7:30 up don't know if it's going to give it a 7:31 name actually should do should give it a 7:33 little lightning yeah new app idea rush 7:35 just done just that so incredible as 7:39 someone who has never made an 7:40 application before I'm Suddenly at my 7:43 fingertips for less than 200 quid a 7:45 month have infinite power and I'm well 7:49 aware I'm not the only person on the 7:50 planet and that anyone else can have 7:52 that power today and will have it within 7:54 the next few months interesting 7:56 conclusion here the barrier to entry has 7:58 been lowered massive ly but that is 8:00 still there there are a couple of things 8:02 you're going to need if you want to do 8:03 this number one is patience and 8:05 experience discussing ideas with large 8:08 language models such as chat GPT these 8:11 tools require prompt engineering and a 8:13 real understanding of how to structure 8:15 things out otherwise you're going to be 8:16 going round and round in circles because 8:18 you're essentially talking to a toddler 8:20 who will forget things eventually basic 8:23 technical knowledge even at like a 8:24 project management level so you 8:25 understand the difference between a 8:26 front end a back end a server how to 8:28 deploy things what GitHub is you're 8:30 going to need to understand that but 8:32 that's just like an hour of youtubing 8:34 and some weird things like a good 8:35 example is how to keep your API key 8:37 secure I've been talking to I understand 8:40 I can do it through superbase which is a 8:42 the database system behind lovable but 8:45 whenever I try and put it into practice 8:47 there's always something not quite 8:48 working and I'm not 100% sure at all 8:50 whether it is actually secure and I 8:51 don't want that key to be revealed 8:53 because anyone could use it to to rack 8:55 up my bill and of course the biggest 8:57 personal struggle which is shiny object 8:58 syndrome I will often be working on 9:00 three or four of these projects at the 9:02 same time because there a 30- second 9:03 kind of building experience as you put 9:05 prompts into one so throughout the last 9:08 couple of weeks I've easily been going 9:09 on like four or five things at once and 9:11 then over in here in chat gbt coming up 9:12 with the next idea it's not healthy it's 9:14 not the way to be it's why I've built 9:16 that voice app so I can slow things down 9:18 and really consider and make the plan 9:20 and the project Plan before I jump in 9:22 and start building so where's this going 9:24 by the summer it's March now by the 9:25 summer it's going to be unrecognizable 9:27 by Christmas it's going to be Panic 9:28 stations when everyone is building these 9:30 out there'll be some saturation there'll 9:32 be some frustration just like there has 9:34 been with image generation and language 9:36 models because they are still not magic 9:38 they still are in the very very early 9:40 stages of their life but if you are in a 9:42 desk job and you can see where the 9:44 writing is going in the next few years 9:46 then now is the time to pick up these 9:48 tools I don't worry about which one in 9:50 particular because I think they're all 9:51 going to be replaced or improved 9:52 drastically from where they are now but 9:54 the process of coming up with these 9:56 ideas about thinking about websites as 9:58 apps 9:59 as Dynamic lead generation tools that 10:01 could sit on your website as things to 10:03 make your life better shopping L I 10:05 didn't show you the shopping list app 10:06 that I've been working on uh tools that 10:08 you should go and look at just got a 10:09 little list here go and look at replit 10:11 lovable 01 Tempo labs they all come with 10:14 a significant amount of free trial time 10:17 so I'd come up with some ideas and then 10:18 go and just see what happens when you 10:20 try and play with them small wins now 10:22 are going to compound massively over 10:23 time and as everyone's been saying since 10:26 the beginning it's not AI That's going 10:28 to win it's going to be the humans that 10:29 know how to work and manipulate and work 10:32 with AI that are going to be the winners 10:34 at least in the short to medium term so 10:36 I'm sharing insights I'm trying to share 10:37 everything I'm doing I want to show you 10:39 how I'm making money with this stuff I'm 10:41 going to show you how I'm making other 10:42 people money with this stuff I'm going 10:43 to share all the apps I'm building I 10:45 can't see any reason to hide anything 10:47 because anyone can literally build any 10:49 idea they have and none of my ideas are 10:51 going to be better than anyone else's 10:53 the core thing I'm going to look at is 10:54 still what I do best which is marketing 10:57 and selling psychology of how to get 10:59 people to convert I need to still plug 11:01 stripe and payment systems into the back 11:03 of these things I need to look at all of 11:05 that I need to consider the accounting 11:07 issues when I'm I'm spending all this 11:09 money on these apps I'm going to be 11:10 raising money through the single limited 11:12 business uh it's an insane time to be 11:15 sat at front of a screen doing this 11:17 stuff it's very very exciting I've not 11:19 even begun to think of the generational 11:22 issues this is Raising with my kids 11:24 Beyond making the fun animal game and if 11:26 you're watching this you need to be 11:27 experimenting and I want you to do it 11:29 with me so let me know what you're 11:30 thinking about and what you're toying 11:32 with and if you got any challenges ping 11:33 me a message I would love to do stuff 11:35 I'd love to build in public with all of 11:37 you and share everything we find good 11:38 luck let's see what we can 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