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Vibe coding Nothing’s apps is fun, until you try to make them useful
- Robert Hart
- February 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Making a smiley widget with Nothing’s web-based Essential Apps Builder. | Screenshot: The Verge / Nothing
After a week vibe coding apps using Nothing's Essential Apps Builder, I'm conflicted. I buy into the smartphone maker's vision for software that adapts to you, not the other way around, but right now it doesn't deliver. It's hard to see how this goes from cool novelty to a reliable tool without serious refinement, and a level of consumer patience it may struggle to find.
Nothing laid out its pitch for an "AI-native operating system" last year: something that would sit at the heart of its devices and make them feel more personal and more adaptable. While it's not really an operating system - it's more of an AI layer draped over the top of An …
Originally published at The Verge