7th August 2025

Weekly roundup

OpenAI launched GPT‑5 yesterday, and it’s a big leap—able to create full, polished websites, apps, and games from a single prompt, complete with parallax scrolling and responsive design. It marks a shift from juggling tools to working with an intelligent partner that can handle complex, multi-step workflows on its own. Google’s AI coder Jules also went live this week, Anthropic added security tools to Claude Code, and Cursor patched a serious bug that raised trust concerns. A new study found nearly half of AI-generated code has security flaws, and as vibe coding tools spread, so do worries about unsanctioned use inside companies.

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18 AI Vibe Coding Tools You Need To Know: Build At The Speed Of Prompt

This Forbes article calls out some of the best tools worth checking out. You can read it for free despite having to navigate Forbes’ ad ridden UI. Suggestions range across pure no-code “prompt to app” offerings to tools that help refine more of the backend functions.

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Project Lovable Hackathon

20 TEAMS. 20 HOURS. €20K prize money. The challenge? Build something unreasonable from scratch in 20 hours. This is a joint offering from Lovable and some top VCs. It’s an in person event and the latest in an increasing number of Lovable collabs and vibe coding focused hackathons generally.

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9 habits of the highly ineffective vibe coder

A slightly negative lens here but some key considerations worth bearing in mind early on in your journey, especially around the need to consider costs and avoiding creating a spaghetti junction of code leading to the inevitable…”f**k this, let’s start again”

That’s it for this week.

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