Anthropic May Be About to Drop a Vibe-Coding Feature. It Could Change Everything 

Leaked images suggest Anthropic could declare war on the vibe-coding startups it helped create

BY BEN SHERRY, STAFF REPORTER @BENLUCASSHERRY

Illustration: Inc; Photo: Anthropic, Getty Images

A new feature may be coming to Claude, and it could be an existential threat to the fast-growing vibe-coding market. 

On April 12, X user @hysteresis_x posted a screenshot of what they claimed was a new feature coming to Claude. The screenshot depicted a typical chatbot interface, plus an animated version of Anthropic’s mascot Claw’d, under a message that read “let’s ship something great.” Other leaked images depicted an analytics dashboard and a game that users can play while their app is being created (similar to Google Chrome’s Dinosaur game). 

The X user said the screenshots came from a “lovable-like feature where you can build full-stack apps easily.” Lovable is one of Europe’s greatest AI success stories; the company sells access to a platform that enables anyone, at any skill level, to build websites and applications, a practice commonly called vibe coding.

Lovable and fellow vibe-coding companies Replit and Bolt have exploded in popularity over the last year, largely by using Anthropic’s Claude models to power their platforms. Software engineers have adopted Anthropic’s own Claude Code product en masse, but it still hasn’t fully broken through among non-coders. Up until now, these vibe coding companies have had a friendly, mutually beneficial relationship with Anthropic. Should this feature be released, though, Anthropic’s relationships with these platforms could significantly change. 

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But at least one major vibe-coding leader doesn’t seem to be concerned. Bolt CEO and cofounder Eric Simons posted on X that he’s been expecting and preparing for this moment “ever since we launched Bolt in Oct ‘24.” 

Simons described the vibe-coding market as a “growing pie,” but wrote that the “easy wins are officially over.” The CEO went on to say that companies focused on consumer revenue “have leveled out at the lowering ceiling,” and that “over-leveraged fundraises & valuations may turn into liabilities in new realities.”

The winners of this next phase, according to Simons, will be the companies who “go deep on specific workflows and use cases w/ high retention,” while raising enough money to be “thoroughly dangerous, but not so much that your valuation becomes a liability.” 

In replies to other users, Simons wrote that Bolt uses multiple AI model providers, and is relying on its own internally-developed models and open source models. 

Lovable CEO Anton Osika did not acknowledge the rumored Anthropic leak online. Neither did Replit CEO Amjad Masad. Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Inc.

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