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Sam Witteveen sits down with Logan Kilpatrick, Google’s lead on AI Studio, for a wide-ranging 45-minute conversation recorded live at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas. The interview covers AI Studio’s evolution from its early days as Maker Suite through its current identity as a full vibe-coding platform, where users can go from a text prompt to a deployed, database-backed application — running on Cloud Run — in a matter of minutes, often at no cost.
Kilpatrick discusses several recent additions to AI Studio’s Build tab, including design previews that generate multiple visual iterations of an app concept before any code is written, and hints at upcoming Gemini model releases that he says will further close the gap between what developers imagine and what they can ship. He describes millions of non-technical users already building software inside AI Studio and frames this as “chapter one” of a longer story: once software creation itself is essentially solved, the next wave of challenges will be everything that comes after the code.
The conversation also touches on the broader agent wave visible at Google Cloud Next, the integration of Gemini across Google’s product ecosystem, and Kilpatrick’s personal shift from skepticism to conviction about AI’s ability to handle complex, multi-step engineering tasks. For developers and product builders tracking the Gemini and AI Studio roadmap, this interview offers direct, first-person insight into the platform’s direction from one of the people shaping it.
📺 Source: Sam Witteveen · Published April 24, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
