Vibe coding floods the App Store as Apple tightens review
Apple has run into an unexpected side effect of the vibe coding boom: in a single quarter, the flow of new apps into the App Store grew by 84%. The review queue has stretched from the usual day or two to weeks, and the company has begun blocking updates to services such as Replit, Vibecode and Anything if they let users generate and run new code after review.
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The vibe coding boom has sent a flood of AI apps into the App Store, and Apple is dealing with a side effect: new submissions jumped 84% in a single quarter, forcing the company to tighten moderation.
What is vibe coding?
Vibe coding has turned mobile app development from a job of weeks or months into a process where you describe an idea in plain language and a model assembles a working prototype on its own.
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