While everyone was debating the new Instagram logo, Meta quietly dropped an entirely new social media app called Pocket and it leans even harder into AI. Where Instagram has posts and reels, Pocket delivers a feed of 'gizmos' – AI-generated mini games and digital toys that users can generate and then share via the app.
Vibe coding has taken off big time in the past year. While the open-source game engine Godot banned AI coding in an attempt to protect the sanity of its maintainers, Pocket aims to tap into the trend and allow anyone to quickly generate a basic game using a text prompt.