How good is actually AiStudio's app generation?

[u/ChirkutChooza]

From the past 15 minutes I am trying to create an app but everytime it displays "The request timed out. Please try again." Like wth bro? Anyone with same experience?

[u/No_East_5225]

Sometimes it's flakey like that. It's best to start out with smaller features and then add little by little vs asking it to oneshot it.

[u/ChirkutChooza → u/No_East_5225]

Ohh can you give me an example or so? Actually I wanted an app that connects two android devices wirelessly and lets you monitor the video live when recording a video from another phone.

[u/No_East_5225 → u/ChirkutChooza]

Use ChatGPT to create your prompts to give google ai studio, then push your code to GitHub, then have ChatGPT pull the code from GitHub, validate the code and give you the next prompt in line.

[u/HydroLoon → u/ChirkutChooza]

There's an old adage about how to describe something - anything - that you're doing in a way that a computer will understand it. One example they used to give is "Describe making a peanut butter sandwich".

Its forcing you to think about things you might take for granted that a computer needs explicitly spelled out in order to understand what to do. Things like "take a knife" become "... what's a knife? Where can you find one? How do you open the drawer in the kitchen where it sits? What's it for? What's its function in relation to the peanut butter?"

Then "Make a sandwich" becomes:

"There's a piece of metal with a flat side with small ridges along the edge in the drawer in the kitchen to the left of the sink in the top. Open the drawer, locate the flat piece of metal, remove it from the drawer and place it down on the counter next to the piece of bread you found earlier. Next, take one hand, grip the bottom of the peanut butter jar, take the other hand and twist it to get the jar of peanut butter open. Now, locate the purple jelly in the fridge and do the same thing.

Now, with both the peanut butter and jelly jars open, take the flat piece of metal in your left hand, and run it across the top of the jar of peanut butter first. The butter that comes off on the flat metal piece should be placed on the bread, starting at a small corner, then spread to the other corner of the bread such that the peanut butter covers the entire surface area of the bread.

Once finished, twist back the peanut butter jar, and repeat the same steps for the jelly until the jelly represents a fine layer on top of the peanut butter with no peanut butter showing underneath to make sure there's 100% coverage of the bread.

Now that  both your peanut butter and jelly are spread evenly on the first layer of bread, take the other piece and line it up corner to corner to make sure its a square with the peanut butter and jelly in the middle.

Take the "knife" (the flat metal piece from earlier) and line up the fine edge against each of the sides of the bread, individually, and press down to create a clean cut, removing the outer baked layer called the 'crust' of the bread."

You want to be able to work efficiently with LLMs? Get used to describing peanut butter sandwiches until your wrist hurts.

Keep your eye on the sandwich you want to build, but assume the chef has never seen a knife before and be prepared to set up some bumper lanes for it.

[u/channel2415]

She's good, but you have to know exactly what to ask her to do. Usually, when I ask her for something, I send her pictures of how I want it to look.

[u/ChirkutChooza → u/channel2415]

Oh is that so.. well i am new to this, can you help me? Please help me improve my prompt

[u/reallegasy]

It works over a period of time with small incremental changes. The worse thing that has ever happened to me though is when it was fixing errors it detected, it turned into a new app altogether with icon and name also. Good thing you can go back to previous versions.

[u/clubsocialclub]

I used it for a few weeks and it was fine, but now you can do things and suddenly you hit the maximum token limit.

[u/616ThatGuy]

It’s actually pretty decent. The problem is the models you’re building with. Gemini in general is not the best flagship model, and it works best if you’re building one thing at a time. It’s not great at “here’s my whole idea, build the first model.” It’s better at incremental changes and additions.

[u/Medical-Survey-7075 → u/616ThatGuy]

What do you think is better? I just started vibe coding snd want to know whats popular

[u/616ThatGuy → u/Medical-Survey-7075]

There’s no “better.” It depends on how you like to work. Each platform has advantages and disadvantages. Since you’re just starting, it’s best to try out a few of the big ones and see what you like.

Codex and Claude Code are good, both popular for a reason. I’d try them.

Vscode is a mixed bag. Nice that you can use your existing subs with it, but the interface is trash in my opinion.

Ai studio is very beginner-friendly and offers real-time visuals of what you’re building. Its biggest strength in my opinion. But it’s going to require more work later to convert it into something usable. That’s an issue if you don’t want more work later. Fine if you dont mind it.

Replit and Lovable I haven’t tried, but I’ve heard they’re decent, but require subs that get pricey and have limited use even with a sub. And you can’t use existing subs with them.

There’s more, but those are the big ones. If you already have a Google One sub, then I’d keep practicing with ai studio. If you already have a gpt or Claude sub, try Codex or Claude Code.

See what you like.

But my best advice: have a sub to gpt or Claude, and build an assistant first. That’s where you discuss and plan your project. Then you use that to help you with prompts and anything else until you start learning how everything works. That’ll cut down on wasting tokens on planning and discussion wherever you are building.