Building Lovable With Anton Osika: The Power Of Simplicity, AI As A Technical Co-Founder, And Why 'Vibe Coding' Needs A New Name

About this episode

Tomer Cohen interviews Anton Osika about how AI is transforming software development and making it more accessible to non-coders.

There’s a moment every builder remembers. You type a few lines of code.The computer responds.And suddenly you realize: I can build things. For decades, that moment was reserved for a small group of people who knew how to code. Turning an idea into working software required technical expertise, time, and often a full engineering team. AI is changing that equation. In this episode of Building One, host Tomer Cohen speaks with Anton Osika, co-founder and CEO of Lovable — a company building tools designed to dramatically reduce the friction between having an idea and turning it into working software. Lovable allows people to describe what they want to build and generate functional applications far faster than before. But Anton’s ambition goes beyond helping developers move faster. His vision is to expand who gets to build in the first place. From founders launching companies without technical co-founders to teams inside enterprises building their own internal tools, Anton believes AI is transforming software from a specialized craft into a much more accessible economic tool. Tomer and Anton discuss: Why the next wave of software creation is about enabling the 99% who don’t code The…

People in this episode

Host: Tomer Cohen

Guest: Anton Osika

Topics covered

• AI in software development
• simplicity in product design
• accessibility in tech
• software creation for non-coders
• trust in AI tools

Keywords

• AI
• software development
• simplicity
• non-coders
• Lovable
• trust
• product design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lovable

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