Why your favorite creator is building an app
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Why your favorite creator is building an app

B1IntermediateOctober 19, 202641 min
  • Technology

Creator life involves using a lot of software. Bad software. Stephen Robles is one of the creators who decided to build something better, for himself and for his community. He tells David how he thinks about his responsibility as a developer, how he makes apps, and how AI is changing the way he builds things for his audience. Further reading: Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week You Can See Everything has the biggest opening weekend for a doc in 20 years TikTok says ban of Musk documentary account was ‘an error’ Video game owne...

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Hello and welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of making apps for your phone, on your phone. I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, what it's like to be a Vibe Coding app developer and also a content creator.

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But first, here's everything else happening on The Verge today. I'm Josh Kajas, and this is 90 seconds on The Verge from Monday, October 19th, 2026. Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month. According to Bloomberg, the big announcement is expected to be a new, lighter MacBook Pro

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with an OLED touchscreen and an iPhone-like Dynamic Island. The event is next week, October 28th at 1pm Eastern, and as always, we'll be covering it here, live at the Verge. Meanwhile, you can see everything had the biggest opening weekend for a documentary in

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