Samsung Wants To Let You Vibe Code Your Galaxy Phone Experience 34
Samsung says it's thinking about bringing "vibe coding" to future Galaxy phones, allowing users to describe apps or interface changes in plain language and have AI generate the code. TechRadar interviewed Won-Joon Choi, Samsung's head of mobile experience, to learn more about the plans. Here's an excerpt from their report: As noted by Won-Joon Choi, the usefulness of vibe coding on smartphones is that it opens up the "possibility of customizing your smartphone experience in new ways, not just your apps but your UX." He added, "Right now we're limited to premade tools, but with vibe coding, users could adjust their favorite apps or make something customized to their needs. So vibe coding is very interesting, and something we're looking into." [...]
Samsung recently debuted the Galaxy S26 series of phones and made a point to not call them smartphones -- they're "AI phones" now. This certainly rang true with the majority of upgrades to the devices being AI software-focused, like the new Now Nudge and expanded Audio Eraser tools, with the biggest hardware bump for the base models coming via the 39% improved NPU processing (the processor in charge of on-device AI tasks). It also teased the debut of Perplexity on its phones, joining as an alternative to the Gemini assistant, and teased the possibility of other AI models getting the same treatment in the future.
Samsung recently debuted the Galaxy S26 series of phones and made a point to not call them smartphones -- they're "AI phones" now. This certainly rang true with the majority of upgrades to the devices being AI software-focused, like the new Now Nudge and expanded Audio Eraser tools, with the biggest hardware bump for the base models coming via the 39% improved NPU processing (the processor in charge of on-device AI tasks). It also teased the debut of Perplexity on its phones, joining as an alternative to the Gemini assistant, and teased the possibility of other AI models getting the same treatment in the future.
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yeah right.... (Score:2)
now you can code yourself personalized bugs which YOU have to fix.
congrats samsung. after removing all the useful stuff from your phones youre now promoting buggy phones as a feature.
jeez. no wonder ive not upgraded since my note 20 ultra. it has 2.5TB storage, 15000mAh battery with extended case and a real bluetooth spen. and thats a 6 year old samsung device which has a better screen than the s26 ultra, more storage and better battery capacity.
how about actual innovation - give me a phone with thermal cam
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but but 0.1 mm thinner
Is this for real? (Score:2)
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This is nothing but subscription scam that puts more money in their pockets.
Let me remid everyone, Samsung is one of the RAM manufacturers as well.
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Remember those "choose your adventure" books? They sucked because if I knew what story I wanted I would have written it myself. It's the same with apps, especially games you have to think of the gaming scenario. Like if you had to come up with Tetris that wouldn't be easy.
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Oh come on, those Gary Gygax books were pretty good back in the day for teenagers. You might as well say any game with only limited choices at any given time (most of them) are pointless because you could have written the game yourself.
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Remember those "choose your adventure" books? They sucked because if I knew what story I wanted I would have written it myself. It's the same with apps, especially games you have to think of the gaming scenario. Like if you had to come up with Tetris that wouldn't be easy.
Choose your adventure books are AWESOME. I had a time travel one that I probably worked my way through a hundred times, always coming up with different scenarios. It was like training wheels for the imagination, with just enough guidance to keep you from spiraling out of control, but still let you stretch.
This idea here however? Completely batshit stupid. And I'm not talking, "look at that guano over there," stupid. I'm talking, "let's dive in that guano and roll around it, smear it all over ourselves, then
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Choose your adventure books are AWESOME. I had a time travel one that I probably worked my way through a hundred times, always coming up with different scenarios. It was like training wheels for the imagination, with just enough guidance to keep you from spiraling out of control, but still let you stretch.
There was one called Inside UFO 54-40 that had an ending you couldn't navigate to. You had to "cheat" to find it, by just reading a section of the book that you had no way to reach. I thought that was pretty clever.
Similarly, Infocom had a text adventure game called The Lurking Horror that needed you to enter a computer password at some point to continue with the game. The password was only provided in the physical materials included with the purchased copy of the game. But if you knew how to hack into the
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Not how "apps" work.
They typically have a bunch of back-end. The "app" is just the UI / mvc.
Pretttttty sure asking some garbage LLM to "vibe code" something on my phone will end up with garbage that looks functional but does nothing of value.
Bloat (Score:5, Insightful)
Can I vibe-uninstall all the normal Samsung bloatware? I'm not returning to Samsung until they give me a clean Android experience.
Re: Bloat (Score:2)
That's exactly what I would use it for. Turn stuff off that annoys me.
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It is really sad that there is no AI Killswitch and easy way to disable all of it... there should be a law that force manufacturer to get your (un-forced and un-coerced) approbation such as an opt-in to enable anykind of bullshit, assistant, ai tool, ai search, and all the preloaded parasites.
Otherwise, the experience should be a pure vanilla Android, not this perverted garbage.
I tried to escape Google AI-shitification of the Pixel phone just to find Samsung doing the same kind of prostitution or worst. At
Ban vibe coding (Score:1)
Lots of people are losing their jobs because of this vibe coding bullshit. Ban it. I had to let two contractors go because we didn't need their services. If we didn't have access to vibe coding we could have kept those two. Also, ban Full Self Driving. I don't take cabs when I don't feel like driving anymore because my Model Y just drives itself everywhere.
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This should be good. (Score:2)
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vscreen (Score:1)
"Jarvis, make my Sansung look like an Apple" (Score:1)
No. (Score:2)
Could they do 'phones'? Or "battery phones" ? (Score:2)
As Samsung user I hate loads of crap they put on their phones and watches while battery suffers...
Thanks for the heads-up (Score:2)
Now I definitely know I don't want a Galaxy phone as my next phone.
Um, what? (Score:2)
Deja vu (Score:3)
to the early days of app stores where there were five useful apps and 20 others that would pretend to pour beer out of your phone into a glass. Also, virtual cats. And fishtanks.
So when my phone grows an extra speaker (Score:1)
it's feature not a bug, right?
Interesting approach (Score:2)
I think this is actually a good approach. Not vibe coding new apps from scratch necessarily, but using a small local LLM to manage UI configuration. Samsung provides the APIs and the user can just dictate the UI they want.
This brings back memories of writing configuration files for widgets and menus for my window manager in early-2000s Linux, such as Enlightenment or Window Maker... it was a pain in the ass, but very powerful. Put an LLM in front of that and it would be very easy to make changes.
What 80% of the apps will look like: (Score:3)
"$GAME, but where everything is free instead of requiring microtransactions"
"$APP, but without ads or subscription costs"
I'm not saying there's a lack of creativity in the world, but I *am* saying that the ones who would make apps that don't amount to "X but without annoyance Y" are the ones who are probably actual-programmers. This means that Samsung will either have users making apps that directly compete with for-profit games, or the feature is, from a users' standpoint, hobbled and hamstrung to the point of total uselessness, defeating the purpose.