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Power Apps Vibe Experience: Build Business Apps at the Speed of Ideas

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Power Apps Vibe Experience: Building Business Applications with AI in Minutes

Organizations today operate in a fast-paced digital environment where new business challenges emerge constantly. Whether it’s managing internal workflows, tracking projects, or collecting customer feedback, businesses often require custom applications to support their processes.

However, traditional application development—even with modern low-code tools—still requires time, technical expertise, and coordination between multiple teams. Designing the user interface, building the data model, writing logic, and integrating services can take weeks or even months.

To address this challenge, Microsoft Power Apps has introduced the Power Apps Vibe experience, a new AI-driven way to build enterprise applications by simply describing the outcome you want.

This innovative approach represents a significant evolution in the Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem, enabling organizations to move from idea to working application faster than ever before.

What Is the Power Apps Vibe Experience?

The Power Apps Vibe experience is an AI-first development environment designed to simplify and accelerate the creation of business applications.

Instead of manually designing each component of an application, users can start by describing their business requirement in natural language.

For example, a user might type:

“Create an internal app where employees can submit support requests, track approvals, and receive notifications.”

Based on this prompt, the platform automatically generates the foundational elements required to build the application.

These include:

  • Business requirements and solution plan
  • A structured data model built on Microsoft Dataverse
  • User interface layouts and navigation
  • Forms and pages
  • Application logic and workflows

All these elements are created within a single integrated development workspace.

This dramatically reduces the time and complexity associated with traditional application development.

Why Power Apps Vibe Is Important for Modern Organizations

Many organizations face a common challenge: they have plenty of ideas for improving processes but lack the resources to implement them quickly.

Building custom software often requires developers, project managers, designers, and testers. Even with low-code platforms, organizations still need time to design data models and configure application logic.

The Vibe experience addresses these challenges by introducing AI-assisted application generation.

Key Benefits

  1. Faster Time to Value

Organizations can create functional applications in minutes instead of weeks.

This allows teams to rapidly prototype ideas and deliver solutions faster.

  1. Empowering Citizen Developers

Business users who understand the problem best can now participate directly in building solutions.

They do not need advanced coding skills to create useful applications.

  1. Enterprise-Grade Security

Applications built using Power Apps Vibe run on Microsoft Dataverse, which provides:

  • Role-based access control
  • Secure data storage
  • Compliance and governance capabilities

This ensures that even AI-generated applications meet enterprise security requirements.

  1. Consistent Governance

IT administrators maintain full control through:

  • Tenant policies
  • Data governance rules
  • Environment management

This balance allows organizations to encourage innovation while maintaining control over their technology environment.

How the Power Apps Vibe Experience Works

The development process in the Vibe experience follows a simple three-step model.

Step 1: Describe the Business Problem

The process begins with a natural language description of the application requirement.

For example:

“Create an inventory management app where warehouse staff can track stock levels, update inventory, and generate reports.”

The AI analyses this prompt to understand the core business objectives.

Step 2: AI Generates the Application Plan

Next, the system produces a structured plan for the application.

This plan typically includes:

  • User roles and permissions
  • Data entities and relationships
  • Functional requirements
  • Suggested workflows

This planning stage helps ensure the application is aligned with the intended business scenario.

Step 3: Automated Application Creation

Once the plan is confirmed, the platform automatically generates the application.

This includes:

  • Data tables and schema
  • Forms and screens
  • Navigation structure
  • Business logic
  • Basic workflows

Because the platform creates these components together, the data model and application structure remain synchronized.

Core Capabilities of Power Apps Vibe

Rapid Prototyping

One of the most powerful features of the Vibe experience is rapid prototyping.

Teams can quickly convert ideas into working applications that can be tested and refined.

Benefits include:

  • Faster proof-of-concept development
  • Reduced design effort
  • Early feedback from stakeholders

Unified Development Environment

Traditional application development often involves multiple tools and stages.

Developers may use different platforms for:

  • Planning
  • Data modelling
  • UI design
  • Workflow creation

The Vibe experience combines these activities into a single integrated workspace.

This unified environment ensures that changes to the data model automatically update the application.

AI-Assisted Development

Artificial intelligence plays a continuous role throughout the development lifecycle.

AI can assist with:

  • Prompt suggestions
  • Code generation
  • App design improvements
  • Architecture recommendations

Because the system understands the context of the business problem, it can suggest optimizations and enhancements.

Instant Application Generation

With a single prompt, the platform can generate an entire application structure.

Automatically generated components include:

  • Data tables
  • Forms and pages
  • Navigation menus
  • Business rules
  • Application logic

This dramatically reduces the effort required to build enterprise-ready applications.

Power Apps Vibe vs Canvas Apps vs Model-Driven Apps

Within the Microsoft Power Apps ecosystem, developers can choose from multiple development approaches.

Each approach serves different use cases.

Feature

Power Apps Vibe

Canvas Apps

Model-Driven Apps

Development Style

AI-generated

Visual UI design

Data-driven

Creation Method

Natural language

Drag-and-drop designer

Data schema

UI Customization

Moderate

High

Limited

Data Model

Automatically generated

Flexible sources

Dataverse required

Speed

Very fast

Medium

Medium

Ideal Use Case

Rapid prototypes

Custom UI apps

Enterprise solutions

 

Conclusion

The Power Apps Vibe experience represents a major step forward in the evolution of low-code platforms.

By combining artificial intelligence with the capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft is enabling organizations to transform ideas into working applications faster than ever before.

For businesses seeking to improve productivity, streamline workflows, and innovate rapidly, the Vibe experience offers a powerful new way to build enterprise solutions.

 

Reference Links:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/vibe/overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/vibe/create-app-data-plan

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/released-versions/new-powerapps

 

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After all the hype, was 2025 really the year of AI agents?

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Ryan is joined by Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the HumanX Conference, for a conversation on how AI has evolved in the last year.
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#719 – Inventing the Power MOSFET with Alex Lidow

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Alex is founder and CEO of Efficient Power Conversion, a leading manufacturer of GaN MOSFET’s.

Alex is also the inventor of the original Power MOSFET and HEXFET at International Rectifier.
Also, former CEO of International Rectifier (founded by his father!),
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We cover everything from inventing the power MOSFET on his first day on the job to silicon physics, AI data centres and humanoid robots. Enjoy.





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Episode 564: New Token Machines

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This week, we discuss NVIDIA GTC, token machines, token budgets, and an AWS outage that may or may not involve AI. Plus, Matt reviews The Wizard of Oz at The Sphere.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 564

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  • Let's T this up.
  • One Trillion Dollars
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  • My terms of service
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  • Networking FOMO
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  • It’s token machines all the way down.
  • The Claude-ning
  • So why Nemo Cloud?
  • You’re just selling token machines
  • Billionaire version of Gallagher
  • I’ve seen too much
  • Upward Replicability

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From Zero to 3D: Ben Bowen on TinyFFR's Rapid .NET Rendering

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This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk.

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"For me it's born out of, I mean the old phrase right, that necessity is the mother of invention. And I want to make games actually, but I think there's a missing middleware in the industry at the moment for certain types of game developers."— Ben Bowen

Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.

Today, we're joined by Ben Bowen to talk about TinyFFR - a cross-platform library for .NET which allows developers to render 3D models. TinyFFR came from Ben spotting that there is a gap in the Games Development tools market: somewhere between 3D modelling software and a full-blown game engine.

"I, personally, believe that a library or software middleware is only really as good as the documentation that comes with it. You probably drive away 90% of the potentially interested parties if you're just saying to them, 'hey, if you want to learn how to use this, you'd better go spelunking through the source code or looking at examples."— Ben Bowen

Along the way, we talked about the importance of really good quality documentation. And it should come as no surprise to you that we talked about this because the documentation for TinyFFR is fantastic. Seriously folks, when you're done listening to this episode, go check out Ben's Hello Cube tutorial for TinyFFR and you'll see what I mean.

Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes.

Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.

Full Show Notes

The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-zero-to-3d-ben-bowen-on-tinyffrs-rapid-net-rendering/

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KotlinConf 2026: Talks to Help You Navigate the Schedule

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The full KotlinConf’26 schedule is finally live, and it’s packed!

With parallel tracks, deep-dive sessions, and back-to-back talks, planning your time can feel overwhelming. When almost every session looks interesting, deciding where to spend your time isn’t easy.

To help you navigate it all, the Kotlin team has selected a few talks worth adding to your list. Whether you’re an intermediate or advanced Kotlin developer looking to sharpen your expertise, part of a multiplatform team solving cross-platform challenges, building robust server-side systems, or exploring AI-powered applications in Kotlin, these are sessions you might want to check out.

Intermediate 

These talks are perfect if you want to build on your foundations, understand where Kotlin is heading, and sharpen practical skills you can apply in your day-to-day work.

Evolving Language Defaults

Michail Zarečenskij

Kotlin Lead Language Designer, JetBrains

Programming languages are shaped by their defaults – what’s safe, convenient, and practical. But defaults evolve, and yesterday’s good idea can become today’s source of friction. This session explores how languages rethink and change their defaults, including mutability, null-safety, and deeper object analysis. With examples from C#, Java, Swift, Dart, and Kotlin, you’ll gain insight into how Kotlin continues to evolve and what those changes mean for everyday development.

Real-World Data Science With Kotlin Notebook

Adele Carpenter

Software Engineer, Trifork Amsterdam

Data is messy, and drawing the right conclusions takes more than generating a pretty chart. In this practical session, Adele will walk you through analyzing a real-world powerlifting dataset using Kotlin tools. You’ll explore how to understand and validate data, work with Postgres and DataFrame, and visualize results with Kandy – all directly from your IDE. It’s a hands-on introduction to doing thoughtful, reliable data science in Kotlin.

Talking to Terminals (And How They Talk Back)

Jake Wharton

Android Developer, Skylight

Modern terminals can do far more than print text. In this deep dive, Jake explores how command-line apps communicate with terminals – from colors and sizing to advanced features like frame sync, images, and keyboard events. Using Kotlin, he covers OS-specific APIs, JVM vs. Kotlin/Native challenges, and reusable libraries that help you unlock the full power of the terminal.

Dissecting Kotlin: 2026

Huyen Tue Dao

Software Engineer, Netflix
Co-host, Android Faithful

Ten years after Kotlin 1.0, the language continues to evolve quickly. This talk examines recent stable and preview features, unpacking their design and implementation to reveal what they tell us about Kotlin’s direction. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how the language is shaped and how those insights can influence your own Kotlin code.

Full-Stack Kotlin AI: Powering Compose Multiplatform Apps With Koog and MCP

John O’Reilly

Software Engineer, Neat

This session explores how Koog can power the intelligent core of a Compose Multiplatform app. This session demonstrates building AI-driven applications using local tools across Android, iOS, and desktop, connecting to an MCP server with the Kotlin MCP SDK, and integrating both cloud and on-device LLMs. It’s a practical look at bringing full-stack AI into real Kotlin applications.

Advanced

Ready to go deeper? These sessions dive into compiler internals, language design, architecture, and performance, making them ideal for experienced developers who want to explore Kotlin beneath the surface.

Metro Under the Hood

Zac Sweers

Mobile Person, Kotlin

Metro is both a multiplatform DI framework and a sophisticated Kotlin compiler plugin. This advanced session breaks down how Metro works inside the compiler, what code it generates, and how its “magic” actually happens. If you’re comfortable with DI frameworks and curious about compiler-level mechanics, this is a rare behind-the-scenes look.

Local Lifetimes for Kotlin

Ross Tate

Programming-Languages Researcher and Consultant

What if Kotlin could enforce that certain objects never escape their intended scope? This talk introduces a proposed design for enforceable locality – lightweight, limited-lifetime objects that prevent leaks and enable safer APIs. Beyond bug prevention, locality opens the door to advanced control patterns, effect-like behavior, and strong backwards compatibility, all while integrating cleanly into today’s Kotlin ecosystem.

Advanced Kotlin Native Integration

Tadeas Kriz

Senior Kotlin Developer, Touchlab

Kotlin Multiplatform native builds come with a key constraint: one native binary per project. This session explores what happens when multiple binaries enter the picture, the architectural impact on large systems, and strategies for splitting compilation into manageable parts. It’s a practical look at scaling Kotlin/Native in complex, multi-repository environments.

Deconstructing OkHttp

Jesse Wilson

Programmer

Instead of showing how to use OkHttp, this talk opens it up. You’ll explore its interceptor-based architecture, connection lifecycle management, caching state machines, URL decoding, and performance optimizations. From generating HTTPS test certificates to extending the library in multiple ways, this session is a masterclass in reading and learning from high-quality Kotlin code.

Multiplatform

Kotlin Multiplatform continues to expand what’s possible across devices and platforms. These sessions showcase the latest advancements, real-world journeys, and forward-looking tooling shaping the cross-platform landscape.

What’s New in Compose Multiplatform: Better Shared UI for iOS and Beyond

Sebastian Aigner

Developer Advocate, JetBrains

Márton Braun

Developer Advocate, JetBrains

This session explores what’s new in Compose Multiplatform and how it continues to improve shared UI across iOS, web, desktop, and Android. You’ll get a hands-on look at recent platform advances, including faster rendering, improved input handling, richer iOS interop, web accessibility improvements, and a smoother developer experience with unified previews, mature Hot Reload, and a growing ecosystem. It’s a practical update on how Compose Multiplatform is becoming an even stronger choice for cross-platform UI.

Sony’s KMP Journey: Scaling BLE and Hardware With Kotlin Multiplatform

Sergio Carrilho

TechLead, Sony

Go behind the scenes of Sony’s six-year journey from an early, risky experiment with Kotlin Multiplatform to the global success of the Sony | Sound Connect app. From high-speed BLE and background execution to migrating from React Native to Compose Multiplatform, this talk explores technical trade-offs, stakeholder skepticism, and hard-earned architectural lessons. It’s a real-world story of betting on KMP early and scaling it globally.

Swift Export: Where We Stand

Pamela Hill

Developer Advocate, JetBrains

Swift Export aims to make calling shared Kotlin code from Swift more idiomatic and natural. This session looks at the current experimental state of Swift Export, demonstrates the transition from the old Objective-C bridge to the new approach, and highlights supported features, current limitations, and practical adoption guidance. By the end, you’ll be able to evaluate whether Swift Export is ready for your team.

Practical Filament – Reshape Your UI!

Nicole Terc

SWE, HubSpot

Discover how Filament, a real-time physically-based rendering engine, can bring dynamic visual effects into your Compose Multiplatform UI. Through practical examples, you’ll explore materials, shaders, lighting, and touch-reactive animations – all without diving too deep into low-level graphics code. It’s a hands-on introduction to building expressive, animated interfaces.

Kotlin/Wasm: Finally, the Missing Piece for a Full Stack Kotlin Webapp!

Dan Kim

Engineering Manager

With Kotlin/Wasm reaching Beta and supported in modern browsers, full-stack Kotlin is closer than ever. This talk walks through building a complete web app using Kotlin/Wasm, Compose Multiplatform, Coroutines, Exposed, and Ktor – unifying the frontend, backend, and database in one ecosystem. It’s a practical guide to building performant, fully Kotlin-powered web applications.

Server-side

Kotlin is increasingly used to power large-scale backend systems. These talks explore how Kotlin powers high-performance systems, large migrations, and mission-critical platforms in the real world. 

How Google.com/Search Builds on Kotlin Coroutines for Highly Scalable, Streaming, Concurrent Servers

Sam Berlin

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search Infra, Google

Alessio Della Motta

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Search Infra, Google

Discover how Google Search uses server-side Kotlin and coroutines to enable low-latency, highly asynchronous streaming code paths at massive scale. This session explores Qflow, a data-graph interface language connecting asynchronous definitions with Kotlin business logic, along with coroutine instrumentation for latency tracking and critical path analysis. It’s a deep look at building “asynchronous by default” systems at massive scale.

Go Get It, With Kotlin: Evolving Uber’s Java Backend

Ryan Ulep

Tech Lead, Developer Platform, Uber

Uber introduced Kotlin into its massive Java monorepo to modernize backend development without disrupting scale. This talk shares how the JVM Platform team built the business case, addressed tooling and static analysis gaps, overcame skepticism, and enabled thousands of engineers to adopt Kotlin. It’s a practical story of large-scale language evolution inside a global engineering organization.

Kotlin Bet for Mission-Critical Fintech: Reliability, ROI, Risk, and Platform Architecture

Yuri Geronimus

Tech leader, Verifone

Adopting Kotlin in a payment platform is a strategic decision about risk, trust, and long-term ROI. This session examines how Kotlin was integrated into a global EMV/PCI ecosystem – from Android terminals to gateways – using null-safety, sealed hierarchies, and value classes to eliminate entire classes of production issues. You’ll see architectural outcomes, measurable compliance gains, and a practical framework for positioning Kotlin as a strategic bet in regulated industries.

AI

AI is rapidly becoming part of modern application development. If you’re exploring agents, LLM integrations, or AI-assisted coding, these sessions will give you both strategy and hands-on insight.

Eval-Driven Development: The Fine Line Between Agentic Success and Failure

Urs Peter

Senior Software Engineer, JetBrains certified Kotlin Trainer

Agentic systems introduce probabilistic behavior and real risk. This talk introduces Eval-Driven Development (EDD), an engineering-first approach to making AI agents reliable. Using Koog, you’ll see how to test agents at multiple layers, collect meaningful metrics, detect regressions, generate synthetic test cases with LLMs, and build continuous evaluation loops that prevent silent degradation in production.

Why Do Most AI Agents Never Scale? Building Enterprise-Ready AI With Koog

Vadim Briliantov

Technical Lead of Koog, JetBrains

Many AI agents fail when moving beyond demos. This session introduces Koog 1.0.0-RC and explains how its structured, type-safe architecture enables scalable, production-ready agents across JVM and KMP targets. You’ll explore cost control, strongly typed workflows, state persistence, observability with OpenTelemetry and Langfuse, and integrations across the Kotlin ecosystem – all focused on building agents that actually scale.

Increasing the Quality of AI-Generated Kotlin Code

Sergei Rybalkin

Kotlin, Meta

Improving AI-generated Kotlin code requires more than better prompts. This talk explores practical strategies, evaluation techniques, and lessons from advancing Kotlin code generation in real-world agents. You’ll learn how to measure quality, refine outputs, and apply tools and best practices that ensure reliability, readability, and maintainability, even as models continue to evolve.

This is just a glimpse of the many great sessions waiting for you at KotlinConf’26. With dozens of talks across multiple tracks, the hardest part might simply be choosing which ones to attend. Don’t forget to dive into the full schedule, plan your agenda, and get ready for three days packed with ideas, insights, and conversations with the global Kotlin community.

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