Short answer: Jordan Metzner says AI Studio Build works like Lovable, Bolt and v0 in the browser, powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, with 16 templates and feature suggestions while it builds; it built and deployed a weather app very fast.
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From Episode 18: TrickOrTreat!, starting at 26:20.
Sam Nadler [26:19]: Cool. And moving on to the last story, Google AI Studio has rolled out, launched a new vibe coding tool. Both of us are, pretty familiar with the portfolio of different vibe coding tools out there. I would say you are an expert, and I believe you like this one a lot.
Jordan Metzner [26:42]: Amazing. Amazing. So Google announced this yesterday. They call it AI Studio Build, I guess they call it. You can, basically build applications in the same way that Lovable and Bolt and v0.dev and even like Codex and Claude Code work, but you can do it all in the browser. It's built by Google. They say it's powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, and it feels just really, really good. They have some premade templates here, so I mean, you're looking at 16 premade templates already. Animate images with Veo, use an AI powered chatbot to do customer support, use Google Maps data, control images, transcribe audio. So I mean, just the prebuilt templates alone are pretty awesome and pretty intensive. I asked it to build a little chatbot for me based on the Built This Week podcast, and so I can jump into that. I think first, I should probably have it start to build something just so we can you and I can kinda show what that interface looks like. But, let's just say we wanna build, like, I don't know, maybe something like a weather clock app for LA and Nashville. Does that sound okay? Is that like too easy?
Jordan Metzner [27:56]: Weather and time app for Los Angeles and Nashville. And let's say make it pretty. And let's go built. And here you go. It's just gonna see kind of the same type of UI you've seen in other apps. What's cool here is they show you some ideas. Like here, add weather alerts, start from a gallery, add hourly forecast. So while the app is actually, like, building its feature set, it's actually thinking of new ideas and recommending them to you that you can actually add into your build so you can actually continue to build and make it better and better. Right? And that's just, one way to kill time. Right? Like, obviously, these things are building. And I know we are running out of time, but I think we'll have enough time that this should get built, and we'll have a little demo of it. And I think that'll show you, like, this is all Google. It's I mean, I do have a Google Gemini paid account, so I'm not sure what permissions you need, but woah.
Jordan Metzner [29:00]: Look how fast that was. Look how fast that was, Sam. I mean, definitely the fastest thing we've built so far. Here it is. Yeah.
Sam Nadler [29:11]: It definitely does not feel like 82 degrees here in Nashville today, but I wonder if that's accurate. But can you deploy to the web? Just, in Bolt, you can essentially take your build and pretty much deploy it immediately.
Jordan Metzner [29:23]: Here we go, baby. Deploy the app. We can push it to GitHub. We can download the app. We can save it. We can share it with, a virtual link. You can add some private, switch to API keys. So guess you can, like, API your own app. You can test different devices. So I guess we could test what it looks like on mobile, even if we rotate it. So, yeah. Pretty cool. And then here's the code. Yeah. So honestly, I think this is a huge day for Google. Really, really awesome product. And you could see all of these products are converging more and more, and just the ability to be able to say kind of anything you want, and then get it built so quickly. So, anyway, yeah, that's Google AI Studio. I think it goes hand in hand with the Atlas announcement as well. And overall, just, yeah, really fun episode, Sam. Really great to catch up with you.
Sam Nadler [30:12]: Great episode, Jordan. Everyone like and subscribe, and we'll see you next week.
Jordan Metzner [30:17]: Awesome. Thanks, everyone. Bye.
