---
title: "My yard is dying, so I made an app for that"
type: "News"
locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/289666894.md"
description: "The author describes using Google's Gemini AI to build a functional app for monitoring yard health via a single prompt. Despite encountering a bug, the AI resolved it in 233 seconds after user intervention. The experience highlighted the rapid capability of generative AI to create software, though technical jargon remained opaque to the non-technical user."
datetime: "2026-06-13T13:15:39.000Z"
locales:
  - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/289666894.md)
  - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/289666894.md)
  - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/289666894.md)
---

# My yard is dying, so I made an app for that

When I returned to my computer five minutes after giving Gemini a lengthy prompt, I had two things: a functional app in a preview window, and a message about a bug.

"~ Channel is unrecoverably broken and will be disposed!" Sounded bad! But right below it was a button to fix the bug. Pretty weird that I just instructed a computer to build a whole app for me with a single prompt, but it needed me to click a button to fix a bug. I did anyway, and in 233 seconds Gemini reported back that it had succeeded, using words like "blockages" and "race conditions." I didn't understand a bit of it. It was thrilling.

This was my second or third attempt a …

Read the full story at The Verge.

### Related Stocks

- [GOOG.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/GOOG.US.md)
- [GOOGL.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/GOOGL.US.md)
- [GOOW.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/GOOW.US.md)
- [GGLL.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/GGLL.US.md)
- [GGLS.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/GGLS.US.md)
- [GOOY.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/GOOY.US.md)

## Related News & Research

- [Google DeepMind economist sees no AI jobs bloodbath yet, but warns of a layoff cascade](https://longbridge.com/en/news/289293254.md)
- [Google to appeal German court ruling assigning liability for AI Overviews false claims](https://longbridge.com/en/news/289608100.md)
- [NotebookLM’s Gemini 3.5 upgrade adds a cloud computer and help finding sources](https://longbridge.com/en/news/289081634.md)
- [Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars](https://longbridge.com/en/news/289250717.md)
- [GitLab Expands Google Cloud Partnership To Boost Enterprise AI Offerings](https://longbridge.com/en/news/289332384.md)