Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika

Today on the AI Daily Brief, we are joined by lovable CEO Antoine Ocica to discuss the evolution of AI coding and why 2026 is the year of the builder. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, robots and pencils, Blitsy, and Superintelligent. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Ad free is just $3 a month. To learn more about sponsoring the show or pretty much anything else about it, go to aidailybrief.ai. If you wanna learn more about our recent benchmarking survey, you can get that information at a I d b intel dot com. And for today's episode, I'm excited to be joined by someone who has been about as deep in the vibe coding revolution as anyone can be. In this episode, we discuss everything from the earliest origins of what would become lovable back in 2023, which I actually covered in the first couple months of the show, to where the market was at the end of last year, to how what people are doing with Vibe Coding has changed over the course of 2025, to what Anton thinks is coming in 2026. Alright. Anton, welcome to the AI Daily Brief. How are you doing? Great to see you, Nathaniel. Yeah. It's it's great great to have you here. So, as I was just sharing, this conversation is part of this series of end of year episodes that are a little bit about looking back and a little bit about looking forward. And for me, undisputedly, the most important kind of AI theme of the last year has been the rise of vibe coding, AI coding, agentic coding, whatever you wanna call it, AI assisted coding. And I think it's poised to be extremely important heading into next year as well. And I was actually looking back because so I started this show in April 2023, and I remembered very early on doing a show where I thought I had done a show about GPT Engineer. And sure enough, I just went back and looked, and it was 07/19/2023, that I did the first show covering that. And so, obviously, you've been on this journey for a minute. And I I kinda wanted to talk about clearly the idea of using AI to produce real functional code or something that you got interested in very early. But what was the sort of journey from those earliest experiments and people on GitHub getting super excited about GPT Engineer up to kind of when Lovable became a thing towards the end of last year? Yes. I it's been a wonderful year, 2025, I have to say. And I think we're still just getting started. And the coming months and years are going to be about scaling …