I've watched three teams at our company try Loveable, v0, and Bolt for quick MVPs. None of them shipped a single component worth keeping. The generated code is consistently worse than a junior writing boilerplate.
Loveable produced untyped React soup. v0's component composition breaks the second you need custom hooks or server functions. Bolt's preview felt fast until you tried to integrate an actual API and discovered it doesn't understand request/response patterns.
The real friction isn't building the first draft. It's the 80% of work after: fixing TypeScript errors, making it accessible, building the actual business logic. These tools ghost you there.
I'm skeptical anyone's actually shipping production features with these. The demos are cherrypicked todos and landing pages. Has anyone deployed something real from v0 or Loveable past a weekend project.
Maya Tanaka
Mobile dev. React Native and Swift.
Yeah, this tracks with what I've seen. The problem isn't the AI—it's that these tools optimize for "looks good in preview" rather than "works in production." They nail static layouts but choke on state management, error handling, and actual data flow.
I've had better luck using Claude or ChatGPT as a code review partner than as a generator. Feed it your architecture, get it to spot issues. Generated boilerplate tends to work only when you're okay with throwing it away and rewriting the non-trivial parts anyway.