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Hey, happy Tuesday! A welcome to the 224 new subscribers since last week 👋

With only 2 days until our SOLD OUT(!) flagship conference this issue will be slightly condensed as our fingers are burning from ordering last minute printing supplies.

Plexal (the conference venue) across the canal, whilst Kieran orders last minute supplies

Let's catch up with the latest AI and visual development news! 💡

🔎 Preview: In today's issue

🔥 Conference Snapshot!
🚨 Major announcements at Microsoft, Google and OpenAI
🎓 Decoded: Is vibe coding really the death of no-code

🔊 On your radar

Keep your finger on the pulse of what's hot in the space right now.

Disclaimer. This week appears to be conference week everywhere; so let's digest it for you.

⭐️ At Google I/O (May 20-21), Google is rumoured to be releasing a coding agent.

👉 This matters because: They are not the first, and certainly not the last. However Google have been very generous with cost; often letting us build for free. (And therefore harvesting our data, but that's for another day)

⭐️ Microsoft build conference (May 19-22)

👉 This matters because: They're taking GitHub Copilot from being a pair programmer to peer programmer. You now have a full coding agent built right into GitHub + an agent building factory. And it looks like Microsoft Visual Studio Chat extension is going open source. This could be messy for Cursor and Windsurf; but excellent for builders who want that user experience.

⭐️ OpenAI release Codex: Task based agent coding within ChatGPT

👉 This matters because: It's a little nerdy - the Codex agents go off and complete coding tasks e.g. review Github changes, tweak actual code and push releases. Now take this interaction and apply to marketing, operations. OpenAI are fully shifting into agentic work.

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OpenAI Codex

🤖 Extra bytes

Airbnb are setting the trend (Apple-esque) with their new icon design. Lover or a hater Creator Nicolas quickly launched an icon creator so you can play around.
Build Weekend is done! We had some excellent entries and the judges will be announcing the winner on Thursday.
Zapier users 🤝 CreateWith — come say hi to Claudia, Senior Community Specialist at Zapier, and connect with fellow automation experts in a relaxed setting. It’s the perfect chance to swap workflows, share what you’re building, or just hang out with like-minded folks ahead of the conference.
Ramen space is running 2 workshops in London this week. Building Multi-Agent Systems: Practical Workshop for AI Builders this Wednesday. And Ship an AI Wrapper with advanced prompting on Friday.

📆 It's the week of Create With Conference 2025. Hadn't you heard

First I must flag James's choice of transport for all the gear 🤣

Not so smart after all

Second, let's do a run down of who will be there and why they're freaking awesome

Charlie has opened an IRL coworking space in East London for entrepreneurs. Online -> Offline mode is even more important
Jonas, ex-CTO of Monzo, has an early stage startup that embeds an "AI chief of staff" who automates tedious ops processes into your company. They're looking for companies that are <15 people and pre seed. This could be the beginnings of how companies look and operate in 5 years.
Tanya, from AISheets, previously built a headshot app even though others were already doing it. Remember the rule...not being first, does not mean it's not worth starting.
Petter, Bubble documentation OG, had recently started pumping out content on Youtube specifically about building a consistent brand on Bubble. Name me a Bubble developer who hasn't heard of Petter.
Katt, co-creator of buildthekeyword.com, already sold nocode-exits.com and has a few things to say about building a SaaS!
Cien is shipping a multi-model, multi modal no-code agent builder platform... built mainly with no-code!
Andy from Glide, has some hot takes on AI Wrappers; he thinks it's going to be hard work competing with the foundational platforms lock down + monetise the heck out of API access
Andrew, at Zapier, thinks AI orchestration is the next frontier. Human in the loop + templates + multiple interfaces.
Matthew from WeWeb is convinced you can build AI web apps in less than an hour. Do you think he can

For a more detailed rundown of what's happening this week, check out the full schedule.

Decoded: Is vibe coding really the death of no-code

In this episode Kieran chats with Yaokai Jiang, founder of Momen, about the deeper challenges of building visual development platforms, the real-world limits of AI coding tools, and what it actually takes to make a no-code builder from scratch.

They also dig into the growing role of AI agents, the future of coding as a career, and whether vibe coding is really going to kill no-code.

It's a fascinating conversation on the future of building.

Watch it here.

Final thoughts

For those of you who are coming to the conference, we really appreciate your support in making this happen. To all attendees, sponsors, volunteers, speakers, and partners... a huge thank you! We can't wait to meet you in person.

To those who can't make it this year, thank you for sticking with us. We'll be sharing the best insights and talks soon.

Meme by our social media manager Victoria, who, in the midst of the AI hype cycle, is forced to post manually to each social platform because... technology.

With good vibes 👋

See you on the other side

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