Today, Stitch by Google from Google Labs is evolving into an AI design canvas that turns prompts into production-ready front-end code 🧵

Meet the new Stitch, your vibe design partner. Here are 5 major upgrades to help you create, iterate and collaborate: 🎨 AI-Native Canvas 🧠 Smarter Design Agent 🎙️ Voice ⚡️ Instant Prototypes 📐 Design Systems and DESIGN.md blog.google/innovation-a...

Introducing “vibe design” with Stitch

Stitch is evolving into an AI-native platform that allows anyone to create, iterate, and collaborate on high-fidelity UI.

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★ Stitching with the new Jules API The Jules team finished off another ship week with an initial version of their API, allowing you to integrate with your friendly asynchronous squid engineer. In this post I show how I use Stitch to design a native app that uses the new API...

Not a bad start to a Sunday… with the footy on TV and using Jules to build an iOS app that uses it’s new API… designed by Stitch. stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/272...

★ Pools of Extraction I’ve started to notice some patterns in how I work on software projects. I create throwaway projects to learn from, and large repos with a bunch of ideas in. I sometimes extract targeted repos from them…

✨Stitch Design Variants: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words? We have some great Stitch updates for you today, & I posted about a couple. At first I talk about design variants and how to use the fact that your brain can grok a lot of images very quickly... blog.almaer.com/stitch-desig...

Stitch Design Variants: A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words?

My head has been in the world of code generation for the last few years. Now that I’m also thinking about design generation, I’m seeing a lot of similarities but also some fascinating d…

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I’m super excited about Opal, a new experiment from Google Labs. It has changed my habits. Instead of asking for something in an AI chat app, for some tasks I create a micro app on the fly… developers.googleblog.com/en/introduci...

Introducing Opal: describe, create, and share your AI mini-apps- Google Developers Blog

Discover Opal, a new experimental tool from Google Labs, that helps you compose prompts into dynamic, multi-step mini-apps using natural language.

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OH “We got too many Product Managers who were good at competitive analysis but not deeply technical, so we ended up with fear based copy cat roadmaps.”

“Without the appropriate error handling, the null pointer caused the binary to crash.” status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow... Cue the Rust crowd…

"no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else" — Bill Joy We have used open source as a way to leverage this, and now we are using LLMs with massive sets of knowledge as a form of leverage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s...

I use playwright-mcp to drive the browser, but why not go directly to CDP to get full access to networking and performance as well as DOM etc? Stefan Li wired this up with devtools/mcp! Love it! autoconfig.io/devtools-mcp...

Give your coding agent browser superpowers with DevTools access via MCP

Give your coding agent direct access to Chrome DevTools Protocol through MCP, enabling it to inspect, interact with, and debug web applications at runtime.

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JVM devs, this one’s for you: Rod Johnson (Spring) just dropped an OSS agent framework. JVM-native, Kotlin-based, and focused on agentic flows mixing LLM-prompted interactions with code and domain models. #Java #Kotlin #AINativeDev #News #OSS

Which group will be the AI and which the humans?

One of the most interesting announcements at I/O got just a few seconds of airtime: Gemini Diffusion. A diffusion-based language model that: • Generates in parallel, not left-to-right • Hits ~1500 tokens/sec • Can self-correct mid-generation Read all about it here: https://www.ainativedev.co/99j

Gemini Diffusion! I love a good zig and zag. We used to be in a world where image generation used diffusion techniques (from noise), and text used autoregresion (next token). ChatGPT added 4o image generation that went the other way and used autoregression …

I love the style of Jules. Refreshingly non-Googley? jules.google

Jules - An Asynchronous Coding Agent

Jules is an asynchronous agent that gets out of your way. It lets you focus on the coding you want to do, meawnwhile picking up all the other random tasks that you rather not do.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_... Or wait no, it’s a CLI, oh wait no it’s a remote agent platform… and a new model family…

AI tools multiply, and so do config files. “This has all given birth to a plethora of rules files that we need to manage.” Vibe-rules CLI discovers and syncs them so you can code not babysit .yaml. Details ➜ www.ainativedev.co/nbp #AINativeDev #DevTools #AIDevelopment #CLI

% parade list openai I've been enjoying building simple tools writing a spec and having them generated. `parade` uses Ink and Vercel's AI SDK to let me explore model names from various providers (because I am using the openai:gpt-4o type URI format in other tools). github.com/dalmaer/parade

It’s a sin that this happened to Adam. A true world class frontend engineer and a world class human. I remember being so excited when we first spoke about him joining Chrome and then talking VisBug. And he’s gone from strength to strength. What an epic own goal.

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G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler. nerdy.dev/ex-googler

Vibe coding is the Polaroid camera of development.

Excited to launch the landscape and start to really curate the tools that devs should be aware of as we use AI to get better and building software!

AI Native Dev@ainativedev.io · last yr.

Announcing the AI Native Dev Landscape: A place for developers to understand the AI tools that help them build software faster and better. Be the first to hear about new products and keep track of updates! ainativedev.co/yom

I’m excited to get posting here about all things related to developing software with the new power of AI! #ainativedev

AI Native Dev@ainativedev.io · last yr.

📢 The AI Native Dev website is officially LIVE! 🎉 Dive into the ultimate resource for AI Native Development tools, tutorials, and insights. Start exploring today: tessl.co/4bJAhoY #AINative #DevTools

I giggle whenever I see this in prompts: ``` IMPORTANT: Use valid markdown only for all your responses and DO NOT use HTML tags except for artifacts! ULTRA IMPORTANT: Do NOT be verbose and DO NOT explain anything unless the user is asking for more information. That is VERY important. ```

Late binding of choices is a good thing and helps with choice fatigue. Convention over configuration helps here, and LLMs being able to “fill in the gaps” takes it to a whole new level. It favors getting things working and iterating from there in a tight loop.

Voice is a great way to sculpt vs draw. You can be loose, go back and forth, and it isn’t about speaking the perfect thing which is what always held me back. Voice has become a real input for me these days. You?

It’s time for us to get fuzzy with it. @holdenmatt.bsky.social has written up his thoughts on how LLMs allow this fuzzy world. It feels different. It feels like sculpting clay vs drawing. You are still building, but in a different way. open.substack.com/pub/matthold...

Fuzzy computing

Rethinking CS fundamentals through a "fuzzy" LLM lens

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📽️ Podcast: The One with Two Guys talking about AI software engineering 📽️ As global as our aperture is there are constant reminders of how it's a small world. I got to co-host an episode of AI Native Development with two Israeli founders that I have and have had the pleasure of working for...

AI Web Forge takes a prompt.txt that describes a website and goes to town. @paul.kinlan.me is having fun with these experiments :) paul.kinlan.me/describing-s...

Describing sites instead of coding them

It might be possible to build sites entirely from a simple description.

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