Hands-on with Meta's Pocket: AI coding trapped in a walled garden
Ars Technica AI · rss · 2026-08-31
Meta has launched Pocket, a mobile AI app that allows users to create functional interactive game prototypes simply by typing prompts, without writing a single line of code. The app features a TikTok-style social feed for sharing these creations. After a week of testing, the author found the process of quickly building feature-rich prototypes via LLM chat addictive, but noted that the results are effectively trapped in Meta's new walled garden with no way to export them into standalone projects.
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