AI Features in WeWeb: More Harm Than Help?

Hi everyone,

This has been on my mind for a few weeks, so I wanted to share it and hear what others think.

In my experience, AI in WeWeb hasn’t been helpful—it’s been unreliable. And to be fair, I don’t think this is just a WeWeb issue. I think “vibe coding” in general tends to create fragile, unpredictable results. I’ve seen people try to build apps this way and end up with something that looks good on the surface but isn’t stable enough to support real users.

I’ve personally tried to use WeWeb AI for small tasks. For example, I recently asked it to add a minimum character requirement to a password input. Instead of helping, it broke the logic—the button stopped working entirely, and I had to delete everything and rebuild it from scratch. I imagine others have run into similar issues.

My concern is focus. WeWeb is already a powerful no-code platform, and I think its biggest strength is giving users control and clarity over what they’re building. I’d much rather see continued investment in making the core no-code experience more robust, predictable, and refined—rather than putting energy into AI features that, at least today, feel unstable.

For context, I’m not a traditional developer. I’ve been learning by building—using WeWeb and Xano—and avoiding AI has actually forced me to understand how things work. That’s been valuable. It’s slower, but much more solid.

Even in cases where AI does produce something usable, there’s a deeper issue: if you don’t understand what’s happening under the hood, it’s very hard to sell, maintain, or troubleshoot what you’ve built. And problems will come up. If you don’t truly own the logic, you can’t confidently support it.

To be clear—I really like WeWeb. That’s exactly why I’m sharing this. I just think the platform’s strength is in empowering builders, not abstracting things away too aggressively with AI (at least not yet).

Curious to hear if others have had similar experiences or different ones.

Yes, I’ve experienced this myself. I’ve been working with WeWeb for a while now, and I’ve also been using the AI, which, like any other, doesn’t always deliver what you expect. But I’ve realised that this isn’t the case if you limit its scope and interpretation. For example, I’ve learnt that I can’t ask it to handle a complete workflow because, in some cases, it takes unnecessary steps and doesn’t adhere to the principle of ‘the simpler, the better’, so that it can be understood over time. So I use it more for key points that require JavaScript code, and that’s where you can really harness its full potential or its ability to create custom components.

In my opinion, giving it too broad a context causes it to fail, which is why, from my point of view, narrowing the scope is essential.

The best feature for me was the AI Formulas…

Agree with you wholeheartedly. Of the few times that I have used it, I get exactly the same results - it breaks something and it is the same with other app builders that I have tried.

As as you said, how do you support something if you don’t know how it works.

There are so many things that are requested by builders that are seemingly ignored all in the pursuit of building out AI agents. It is very frustrating.

Same here. The AI formulas where hugely helpfull and I used it a lot. After that diseappeared I havent been able to use the AI to anything helpfull even once.