🧙🏼 Which vibe coding tools to use

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Howdy wizards,

Here’s what you’ll find in this edition:

• My comparison of the most popular vibe coding tools for every technical level

• The AI-first browser race is on, and OpenAI might be joining soon

Sit back and grab a cup of coffee (the cornerstone of any productive learning).

Here’s what’s brewing in AI.

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This section is about how I’m using AI from week to week, as well as practical tips & tricks I discover and actually use.

I made this to help you find the right vibe coding tool

I just vibe coded an overview of the most popular vibe coding tools. It helps you confidently pick the one that suits your skills + ambition and start building ✨

You’ll see how much technical ability is ideal to have to get started with each tool, what you can do with them, some examples of apps built with each tool, etc.

When choosing your tool, my recommendation is to start slightly outside your comfort zone.

Never touched code? Start with Lovable or Bolt.

Know a dash of HTML/CSS or any other coding language? Try Bolt or Replit.

Comfortable reading code? Cursor.

Are you a dev? Go with Cursor or Claude Code.

You’ll quickly learn what you need as you go along. Remember, you can ASK these tools how to use them—they’ll tell you. Copy paste any errors and they'll usually fix it.

They’re all free to try, too.

Check out the site and tell me what you think (just hit reply)! Remember to bookmark.

If there’s an interest for it I might add more to the table in the future, like more “built with” examples, learning resources for each tool, and more.

PS if this helped you, sharing my LinkedIn post about this comparison gets you +100 in vibe code karma (and helps fellow builders).

PS PS this isn’t an exhaustive list of vibe coding tools by any means. I just picked the ones that are the most popular at the moment (in terms of web traffic).

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Perplexity enters the AI web browser race — and OpenAI seems to be next

The Comet browser and what it brings to the table

A few weeks back The Browser Company (the company behind Arc) launched a new, AI-first web browser named Dia. I tested Dia for a bit, while I found it promising, have since reverted fully back to good ol’ Chrome. Yes, old habits die hard.

Perplexity just launched their own web browser this week: Comet. Their website is heavy on vision-related language rather than explaining its features. From what I could decipher, it includes an AI assistant, the ability to query and summarize content from any open tabs, and AI-translation of webpages.

The most standout feature, though, is task automation. Let's say you're in a Google Sheet and want to enrich contacts with emails, then draft an email to those contacts and schedule it for next Monday. With so many browser-based tools that require user authentication plus point-and-click interactions—and given how cumbersome it is to build robust automation for each workflow—it's easy to imagine lots of use cases for this in day-to-day work.

However, the early tests I've seen on Comet shows that the task automation feature quickly falls apart on real tasks—mostly due to auth/permission frictions, CAPTCHAs, failure to select the right UI elements, and hallucinations. It tries to do the tasks but often doesn't complete them or faces another block, similar to how OpenAI’s Operator often gets lost.

PS Comet requires a Perplexity Max subscription ($200/mo) to use the early access version, or you can put yourself on the waitlist for when it becomes more widely available.

OpenAI rumoured to be launching a web browser very soon

Speaking of OpenAI, Reuters reported this week that they're launching a web browser in the coming weeks. Keep in mind, this is fresh off the rumor mill—but seems quite plausible. They've been focusing heavily on improving ChatGPT's search capabilities over the last month, and they've gathered lots of data points on what works and what doesn't with their Operator agent at this point.

Combining search plus Operator into a native browsing experience seems like a natural direction. Early adopters of Operator complain that it moves slowly, needs constant babysitting, and often hallucinates or gets stuck. It also lacks APIs, scheduling, and proper login handling. If OpenAI shipped a native browser with Operator baked in, it could act directly on the DOM instead of pushing pixels and run tasks in the background (with your existing cookies for logged-in sites). That could make things a lot faster, boost reliability, and turn task automation from a "clunky demo" into a genuinely useful everyday assistant.

‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ The business opportunity of controlling this part of consumers' interactions with computers is hard to overstate. Chrome controls 68% of global browsing and has been an integral part of Google's success strategy, as it defaults to their own search & products and gathers crucial data points to optimize their ads.

However, Google may be slow, but they're definitely not sleeping at the wheel. They're making small updates constantly to bring Gemini into Chrome. The problem with having as big and diverse a market as Google does is that updates happen incrementally—they don't want to risk disrupting something that already works so well. Google's delay to launch radical changes to Chrome is exactly what their AI-first competition needs—the first to nail reliable task automation could grab a big piece of their pie.

THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

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