Comment by wongarsu
2 days ago
I wouldn't want this anywhere near production, but for rapid prototyping this seems great. People famously can't articulate what they want until they get to play around with it. This lets you skip right to the part where you realize they want something completely different from what was first described without having to build the first iteration by hand
Honestly the point of this is not to help app developers—it's to replace the need for apps altogether.
The vision here is that you can chat with Gemini, and it can generate an app on the fly to solve your problem. For the visualized landscaping app, it could just connect to landscapers via their Google Business Profile.
As an app developer, I'm actually not even against this. The amount of human effort that goes into creating and maintaining thousands of duplicative apps is wasteful.
This sounds like they creators think that even more duplicative apps that no one knows how it works or what the code even looks like... is a better idea?
How many times are users going to spin GPUs to create the same app?
If Google's paying for the GPU time, I guess it's up to them how they want to cache apps for frequently-used queries. Glad I'm not paying for it!