> These things right now compete with Figma and wire frames
I think that is exactly correct. And beyond Figma or wireframes, they can actually be launched to see if they get traction and have product market fit.
Of course, I've seen tons of "throwaway" code that somehow never gets thrown away, and then, somewhat paradoxically, iteration velocity craters as the dev team tries to get a "prototype" to handle real load.
So what I'm saying is that I think things like Lovable are fantastic tools, but I'm quite confident they will be horribly misused and some poor sap will have the job of getting this stuff actually working with edge cases, security issues, scale, etc.
My prediction: this will look basically exactly like Visual Basic in the late 90s. VB was also heralded as "non-expert programmers can make apps just by drag and drop!" I actually think VB was a great product, the problem was most VB programmers were not, so VB apps took on a very negative connotation: like you could tell it was coded by a "VB coder", so you expected it to suck.