Google’s Opal lets users build AI mini apps using plain English, part of a growing trend in natural language-driven, no-code software creation.

The Google Labs tool enables developers to create apps using natural language prompts and interactive visual aids.

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ChatGPT 4.0 and ChatGPT 2.5 were also found to be fairy adept at writing secure code. "A general purpose LLM can fix some security bugs, but it turns out it's not great at it," Wysopal says.

In one example, coders at software company Freshworks have been using ChatGPT to write code—and, in the process, cut the development time from around 10 weeks down to less than a week.

In addition to touting Gemini 2.5 as a coding tool, Google just released a public beta for Jules, a “coding agent” that can work in the background fixing bugs and writing new features in your ...

Moments later, the app is ready to be hosted at Firebase App Hosting (unavailable at the time of writing), which, as the Chocolate Factory observes, requires a Google Cloud account it can bill.

There's some precedent for the idea that you could describe an app in a sentence, and an AI could write it. Last week, I showcased how GitHub Spark could build a code analysis tool out of a single ...