Notes from the build
What is vibe coding? Definition, origin, and honest limits
Karpathy coined it in February 2025, Collins made it Word of the Year, and by 2026 it's half compliment, half insult. What vibe coding actually means, when it works, and when it breaks.
The best AI app builders in 2026, compared honestly
opix, Lovable, Bolt.new, v0, Replit, Base44, Anything and Firebase Studio — entry prices, usage models, and each tool's biggest documented complaint, from public pricing pages and reviews.
Is vibe coding bad? Steelmanning the criticism
The security stats, the METR study, the two canonical failures — the strongest honest case against vibe coding, what mitigations actually answer it, and a checklist before you ship.
From prompt to production: how opix builds real Next.js apps
What happens between your sentence and a running app: planning, files streaming into a sandbox, two quality gates, and a version you can restore.
Ship an AI chatbot in your app in 5 minutes (with budget caps)
Describe the bot, set a monthly cap, publish. No API keys, no streaming plumbing, no open-ended bill — a walkthrough of the opix AI gateway.
Real images, not placeholders
opix generates real, on-brand photography for your site — and starts most builds from a curated image library, for free.
AI app builder pricing compared (2026)
Lovable, v0, Bolt and opix meter your money in four different ways. The numbers, from their public pricing pages, and what to actually compare.
Why failed AI builds should cost $0
Most AI builders bill you when their model gets confused. We think the vendor should eat its own failures — here's the incentive math.
Introducing opix
Describe an app, watch it build itself, and own every line. Why we built a vibe-coding platform that doesn't lock you in.
Builds that don't break
How opix type-checks and runtime-checks every generation, and auto-repairs errors before you ever see them.