Every time a new artificial intelligence model is released, there’s a ton of hype surrounding it, and the Gemini 3 launch this month was no exception. Gemini 3 was touted as Google’s “most powerful agentic and vibe coding model yet” in the announcement, which caught both my intrigue and skepticism. For those unfamiliar, “vibe coding” is the practice of creating apps with natural language prompts, offloading the actual coding duties to AI models and agents.
