I spent two weeks playing with Loveable last month and shipped a dead simple crud app in hours. felt weird. Then I tried to add a custom payment flow and hit the wall hard. The generated code was tangled, the prompts started fighting each other, and debugging felt like reverse engineering someone else's terrible decisions.

The real issue: these tools optimize for initial velocity, not maintainability. You get working fast until you don't. Once you need to own the code, you're basically rewriting it anyway. And yeah, the generated react patterns are... questionable.

That said, for actual throwaway dashboards or mvp validation, Loveable slaps. But calling it the future of app building misses that shipping something in a weekend doesn't mean you've built something defensible. I still reach for my editor when it matters.