Gemini 3.5 Flash makes fake app "shells" rather than actual apps.
I've been trying to test to see if this thing can actually do any decent dev, since apparently they created an OS from scratch.
I tried to get it to vibecode some interesting utility apps, and it's a shocker (and not in a good way).
Multiple times now:
- It literally codes up a shell interface of an app without it even being functional or wired in the backend
- When you push it, it tries to do little things here and there, and quickly finishes up with a useless, broken result with minimal changes.
- Even if you give it clear reference names of apps with specific functionalities that you'd like it to inform itself on so that it can do things like those as part of its build, it just ignores it
- It does absolutely no QA or tests or checks, and just flatters itself confidently on a job well done
- And worst part, it runs out of use on FLASH just a few prompts in, while its "simple" project is nowhere near even remotely working
And its interface aesthetics...dear lord. It's like some pre GPT-5 era purple rounded sci-fi blobs all over again.
Like it's actually ridiculous. I don't know what it was on when it vibecoded a full working OK, but that sure ain't this Gemini 3.5 Flash.
I certainly was extremely skeptical of the "frontier-level" claims, and well, rightly so. It talks like a flash, it acts like a flash, it codes like a flash.
Minus the actual previous perks of it doing so at very little cost and without chewing up your quota.
Shocker, and not in a good way.