There’s been a surge of browser-based coding tools that look impressive at first glance. Many of them use ChatGPT under the hood, offering natural language prompts and AI-generated code snippets wrapped in sleek UIs. But once the novelty fades, users hit the limits quickly. These tools often feel like cleverly packaged demos—lightweight wrappers around code generators, not serious environments for building full applications. Bolt.new is something else entirely. It’s not a wrapper. It’s not a plugin. It’s a full-stack development system designed for the browser, from the ground up, with AI woven into its core.