Google’s AI Studio Vibe Coding is the worst Vibe Coding tool I’ve ever seen

Google launched its Vibe Coding tool inside AI Studio a few weeks ago, and people made thousands of videos on it. The reason it’s being so popular among vibe coders is that it’s completely free. You don’t even have to integrate the Gemini API key with it because it’s integrated automatically inside AI Studio.

But here are two reasons you should avoid using it right now:

No Support for Environment Variables

AI Studio won’t let you create env vars while vibe coding. So if you are building a web app that uses APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), you have to use them right inside your code, which will expose your API keys.

No Testing URL

AI Studio doesn’t provide a testing URL, which is very important for setting up Google authentication, Supabase, etc.

But wait!

If you still want to build web Apps using Gemini, you can use Gemini CLI, which has a versatile free tier. You can install Gemini CLI inside your Device using Node.js. It means you can store your API keys inside .env.local file while building apps, and you will get a static testing URL like localhost:5000.

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