Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
Is this just a game to you? Interactive mobile “gizmos” are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta’s platform.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: Pocket—which launched in the US last Friday, August 21, after Meta acquired the staff behind the now-defunct vibe-coding app Gizmo in March—is a mobile app that lets users create fully functional interactive “gizmos” just by typing prompts into a text box, without even the option to look at a line of code.
- Fact 2: Over more than 100 prompts, I started refining the basic “sling shot” control idea into something more akin to a full game.
Is this just a game to you? Interactive mobile “gizmos” are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta’s platform.
This brilliant example of game design prowess is technically eligible for awards show consideration Credit: Pocket / Kyle Orland The relatively recent rise of AI-assisted coding tools and the whole concept of “vibe coding” have effectively upended entire software development workflows. While these tools have been available to novice coders willing to put in the work to set them up, those with little to no coding experience could still be a little put off by the CLIs, IDEs, and terminal-based tinkering needed to create a complex AI-coded project these days. Meta’s latest AI-based project launch wants to make that kind of vibe coding as instantly accessible as posting on social media.
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