Short answer: Jordan Metzner calls it a step function improvement because Gemini is built in, so you do not need a back end, an API choice or a key to add AI. A Nashville run recommends Sylvan Park, which Sam Nadler says is spot on.
Watch this answer from Episode 19 (starts at 13:04) · Episode 19 notes and transcript
From Episode 19: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Who Built the Smartest AI of All?, starting at 13:04.
Sam Nadler [13:03]: So, just to wrap this up, from a quick glance, it seems really similar to the other tools out there. What is it about this tool in particular have you really liked? Is it just the suggestions as you're building that that kinda really helps push the product along quickly from a v zero to a v one, or is overall, do you think there's something foundationally better?
Jordan Metzner [13:30]: Oh, no. There's a step function improvement here, and the step function improvement is that Gemini is already integrated. If you were to go back to like a Bolt or a Lovable or any of those and you wanted to add AI into your app, you need to, usually build some type of back end or something to call those APIs. You need to figure out which API you wanna use, you need to get the key, you need to give it to one of these types of tools. And, the fact that Google's tool has Gemini built in means that you can rely on Gemini to be doing the AI inside your application. We made some quick changes here. We'll run it one more time. Let's get a sixth level on quality. Maybe we can try something like Nashville. I know you live in Nashville, Tennessee, and let's just find a spooky route.
Sam Nadler [14:16]: Yeah. Amazing. So we have a
Jordan Metzner [14:19]: Map. A map? Yep. This is Nashville. It recommends to go to it gives you kind of the whole breakdown. It tells you why Sylvan Park is a great area for
Sam Nadler [14:29]: My old neighborhood. Yeah. It's like a very residential. Houses are pretty close together. So if you scroll up, I used to live on Dakota, which is part of the route, I think. Yeah. Right up there, you cross Dakota. So, yeah, it's a great area and very close to where I am going to take my kids and where we go every year.
Jordan Metzner [14:54]: So this is pretty much spot on. Okay. Great. So, I think we talked about it last week, but I just wanna wrap up. The new Google vibe coding tool is obviously pretty fun to use, really cool to play with, highly recommend to use it. And, yeah, I think, know, just wrapping up, we did, two, three Halloween tools in, just minutes and, for pretty much no cost almost, you know. So these are great throwaway ideas, super fun, and, yeah, I hope the Gemini team likes it too.
