AI's vibe-coding era: How the shift to apps changed the race By Jasmine Wu, CNBC and Deirdre Bosa, CNBC • Published March 31, 2025 • Updated on March 31, 2025 at 8:06 am BOOKMARKER ...

Early in the AI race, critics viewed apps like Perplexity, Replit, Sesame and Abridge as second-rate middlemen, slapping an interface on someone else’s technology.