[HN Gopher] An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio
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An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio
Author : meetpateltech
Score : 72 points
Date : 2025-05-21 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| pjmlp wrote:
| > Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible at coding, so we're excited to
| bring it to Google AI Studio's native code editor. It's tightly
| optimized with our Gen AI SDK so it's easier to generate apps
| with a simple text, image, or video prompt. The new Build tab is
| now your gateway to quickly build and deploy AI-powered web apps.
| We've also launched new showcase examples to experiment with new
| models and more.
|
| This is exactly what I see coming, between the marketing and
| reality of what the tool is actually able to deliver, eventually
| we will reach the next stage of compiler evolution, directly from
| AI tools into applications.
|
| We are living through a development jump like when Assembly
| developers got to witness the adoption of FORTRAN.
|
| Language flamewars are going to be a thing of the past, replaced
| by model wars.
|
| It migth take a few cycles, it will come nonetheless.
| xnx wrote:
| I agree. Until about 2005 it was code-on-device and run-on-
| device. The tools and languages were limited in absolute
| capabilities, but easy to understand and use. For about the
| past 20 years we've been in a total mess of code-on-device ->
| (nightmare of deployment complexity) -> run-on-cloud. We are
| finally entering the code-on-cloud and run-on-cloud stage.
|
| I'm hoping this will allow domain experts to more easily create
| valuable tools instead of having to go through technicians with
| arcane knowledge of languages and deployment stacks.
| cjbgkagh wrote:
| Having worked on expert systems the difficulty in creating
| them is often the technical limitations of the end users. The
| sophistication of tooling needed to bridge that gap is
| immense and often insurmountable. I see the AI as the bridge
| to that gap.
|
| That said it seems like both domain expertise and the ability
| to create expert systems will be commoditized at roughly the
| same time. While domain experts may be happy that they don't
| need devs they'll find themselves competing against other
| domain experts who don't need devs either.
| suddenlybananas wrote:
| >We are finally entering the code-on-cloud and run-on-cloud
| stage.
|
| Sounds like an absolute nightmare for freedom and autonomy.
| Keyframe wrote:
| but only because it is
| neom wrote:
| This is why I think Rabbit is one of the most interesting
| startups around. If I could wave a wand and go pick any startup
| to go work at, it would be Rabbit.
| matt3D wrote:
| Which Rabbit are you meaning? When I search for Rabbit AI I
| get a few hits and none of them seem like the most
| interesting startup around.
| neom wrote:
| https://www.rabbit.tech/
|
| They're developing some super interesting ways of the os
| developing itself as you use the device, apps building
| themselves, stuff like that. Super early days, but I have a
| really really good feeling about them (I know, everyone
| else doesn't and I'm sure thinks I'm nuts saying this).
| nwienert wrote:
| You're not explaining why you have such a good feeling -
| is their team uniquely good, far ahead? Is there
| something specific in how they architected it? I think a
| lot of people are headed in this direction, they have a
| bad brand, the need to totally restructure their team,
| and probably bad equity structure now and a need for a
| down round, it'll be hard to get good talent.
| com2kid wrote:
| The rabbit OS project is literally the only correct path
| forward for AI. Hopefully they go for local on device
| inference, as they removes cloud costs, solving the
| burning pile of cash problem most AI companies have.
|
| Directly driving a user's device (or a device hooked up
| to a user's account at least) means an AI can do any task
| that a user can do, tearing down walled gardens. No more
| "my car doesn't allow programmatic access so I can't heat
| it up in the morning without opening the app."
|
| Suddenly telling an agent "if it is below 50 outside
| preheat my car so it is warm when I leave at 8am" becomes
| a simple to solve problem.
| aquova wrote:
| ... that little AI assistant gadget thing that bombed? Them?
| neom wrote:
| Yes, I think people wrote them off WAY too quickly, I don't
| really want to get into a back and forth on if they should
| have done tech reviews even at all blah blah blah, yeah I
| agree wasn't an ideal way to introduce yourself to the
| world, but if you listen to their CEO, use their product,
| and pay attention to the team they've put together... I
| feel strongly they're onto something big.
| j_w wrote:
| Are you being wrote off too quickly when you blatantly
| lie about your product capabilities?
| odo1242 wrote:
| Keep in mind that the company the CEO last founded before
| working on Rabbit was a crypto scam, though. They're
| really not giving people much reason to trust them.
|
| Plus, why a separate device and not a mobile app?
| magicalist wrote:
| > _This is exactly what I see coming, between the marketing and
| reality of what the tool is actually able to deliver,
| eventually we will reach the next stage of compiler evolution,
| directly from AI tools into applications._
|
| Is this different from other recent models trained eg for tool
| calling? Sounds like they fine tuned on their SDK. Maybe
| someday, but it's still going to be limited in what it can zero
| shot without you needing to edit the code.
|
| > _Language flamewars are going to be a thing of the past,
| replaced by model wars._
|
| This does seem funny coming from you. I feel like you'll still
| find a way :P
| bgwalter wrote:
| Gemini 2.5 will write a whole Linux kernel from scratch! We are
| seeing a paradigm shift! This is bigger than the invention of
| electricity! Awesome times to be alive!
| vunderba wrote:
| They don't mention it in the demo but they should really take a
| page from Lovable and add a bidirectional sync to a git
| repository.
| koakuma-chan wrote:
| Why did they hide the model thought details? Thoughts look like
| this now:
|
| Analyzing TypeScript Errors
|
| I'm currently focused on the actions/user.ts file, where I've
| identified a few issues. Specifically, I need to address a
| "Cannot find name" error related to UpdateUserDetailsFormState,
| and confirm that the intended target is
| UpdateUserDetailsFormInput. There might be some other
| discrepancies in the file that I need to resolve.
|
| Debugging the Import
|
| I've been trying to pinpoint the Cannot find name
| 'UpdateUserDetailsFormState' error. The type is definitely
| defined and imported, but it's not being recognized in the
| updateUserDetails function's arguments. I'm suspecting a scoping
| issue with the import statement within actions/user.ts. I also
| need to verify that UpdateUserDetailsFormState is correctly
| defined with the fieldValues property as optional as per the
| schema.
| chermi wrote:
| My understanding is that the ability to watch the chain of
| thought is no walled behind the ultra subscription?
| benbreen wrote:
| The ability to seamlessly integrate generated images is
| fascinating. Although it currently takes too long to really work
| in a game or educational context.
|
| As an experiment I just asked it to "recreate the early RPG game
| Pedit5 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedit5), but make it
| better, with a 1970s terminal aesthetic and use Imagen to
| dynamically generate relevant game artwork" and it did in fact
| make a playable, rogue-type RPG, but it has been stuck on
| "loading art" for the past minute as I try to do battle with a
| giant bat.
|
| This kind of thing is going to be interesting for teaching. It
| will be a whole new category of assignment - "design a playable,
| interactive simulation of the 17th century spice trade, and
| explain your design choices in detail. Cite 6 relevant secondary
| sources" and that sort of thing. Ethan Mollick has been doing
| these types of experiments with LLMs for some time now and I
| think it's an underrated aspect of what they can be used for.
| I.e., no one is going to want to actually pay for or play a
| production version of my Gemini-made copy of Pedit5, but it opens
| up a new modality for student assignments, prototyping, and
| learning.
|
| Doesn't do anything for the problem of AI-assisted cheating,
| which is still kind of a disaster for educators, but the
| possibilities for genuinely new types of assignments are at least
| now starting to come into focus.
| falcor84 wrote:
| I love this, and as for AI-assisted cheating, I would make it
| such that the student can use any tool whatsoever under the
| sun, but then needs to do a live in-person presentation on it
| followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Some are better bullshitters
| than others, but you'll still see a very clear difference
| between those who actually worked and those who had the work
| done for them.
| benbreen wrote:
| Yes, I think this kind of combination is where higher ed is
| going to land. I've been talking to a colleague lately about
| how social skills and public speaking just got more important
| (and are things we need to focus on actually teaching).
| Likewise, I think self-directed, individualized humanistic
| research is currently not replicable by AI nor likely to be -
| for instance, generating an entirely new historical archive
| by conducting oral history interviews. Basically anything
| that involves operating in the physical world and deploying
| human emotional skills.
|
| The unsolved issue is scale. 5-10 minute Q&As work well, but
| are not really doable in a 120 student class like the one
| I'll be teaching in the fall, let alone the 300-400 student
| classes some colleagues have.
| istjohn wrote:
| AI could help with scale. Schools need to build SCIFs for
| their students to complete evaluations in an environment
| guaranteed to be free of AI assistance.
| aaronharnly wrote:
| Presumably Google AI Studio[1] and Google Firebase Studio[2] are
| made by different teams with very similar pitches, and Google is
| perfectly happy to have both of them exist, until it isn't:
|
| - AI Studio: "the fastest place to start building with the Gemini
| API"
|
| - Firebase Studio: "Prototype, build, deploy, and run full-stack,
| AI apps quickly"
|
| [1] https://aistudio.google.com/apps
|
| [2] https://firebase.google.com/
| debugnik wrote:
| Wait until you hear about Google Vertex AI Studio.
| hu3 wrote:
| Bosses reading this:
|
| "this is brilliant! I'll assign multiple teams to the same
| project. Let the best team win! And then the other teams get
| PIP'd"
| newlisp wrote:
| next:
|
| Canvas: "the fastest place to start building with the Gemini
| APP"
|
| Also, did you hear about Jules?
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| Did anyone else notice the weird subtle typos in the output?
|
| "Te harsh jolt of the cryopod cycling down rips you"
|
| "ou carefully swing your legs out"
|
| I find this really interesting that it's like 99% there, and the
| thing runs and executes, yet the copy has typos.
| gexla wrote:
| Seeing these announcements make me nervous. I feel like I found
| some sort of cheat code by using AI Studio for free. Seeing them
| build it out, makes me wonder when they are going to start
| charging for it. Though Grok has been very generous as an
| alternate. I guess there's a lot of good options out there. I'm
| just used to hitting limits most places, and not as good models.
| raihansaputra wrote:
| Agree. And for some reason I find responses from AI Studio is
| much better than Gemini for the same models. I _already have_
| Gemini advanced, bit still mostly use AI studio just for the
| quality of the responses.
| ed wrote:
| I spent a few minutes playing with Studio and the model and agent
| are very impressive.
|
| But be sure to connect Studio to Google Drive, or else you will
| lose all your progress.
| dangoodmanUT wrote:
| Finally, Google is utilizing their cloud
| smusamashah wrote:
| We also have https://websim.com/ for a while now which takes a
| prompt and makes your web app. Nothing as fancy, but it has
| existed for a long time (in AI terms) now.
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