While AI coding tools were still competing on code completion accuracy, Doubao AI, under ByteDance, has quietly made a paradigm shift—from "assisting in writing code" to "automatically delivering products." Recently, Doubao AI's programming received a historic update, introducing a PPT-style visual editing interface for the first time and incorporating a multi-Agent collaborative workflow. This allows users with no coding experience to generate an interactive H5, data dashboard, or activity page that can go live within 8 minutes, truly achieving "say a sentence, and it goes live."

Multi-modal Input: One Sentence, One Sketch, AI Understands What You Want

The new version of Doubao breaks all input boundaries. Users no longer need precise programming terminology; they can simply describe their needs in natural language (such as "create a deep blue tech-themed data dashboard"), or directly upload hand-drawn sketches, reference images, Word documents, or even PPTs. The AI will automatically interpret the intention and intelligently optimize the prompt, ensuring the generated result aligns with expectations. Product managers' whiteboard brainstorming, operations colleagues' holiday event plans, no longer need to wait for development schedules.

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Visual Editing Revolution: Edit Web Pages Like Editing PPT, Drag and Drop to Apply

The biggest highlight of this upgrade is the built-in what-you-see-is-what-you-get visual editor. After generating a page, users can click on any element on the canvas—buttons, text, images, cards—and freely drag them to adjust position, size, font, and color. The operation logic is similar to PowerPoint, but behind the scenes, it generates standard front-end code in real-time.

More conveniently, the system automatically saves all modified versions and supports one-click rollback; the left-side visual interface and right-side code panel are synchronized and highlighted, truly achieving "edit where you look, see where you edit," allowing non-technical personnel to understand and fine-tune technical details.

AIbase Test: From entering "interactive sales data dashboard" to previewing on a mobile phone, the entire process only took 8 minutes, zero lines of code, and the result is comparable to what a professional front-end team would deliver.

Multi-Agent Automated Collaboration: 4 AI Roles, Completing Product Delivery in a Loop

Doubao Programming is no longer a single model, but a "virtual development team" composed of multiple specialized Agents:

  • Retrieval Agent: Automatically fetches the latest industry data, design standards, and materials online, ensuring content timeliness;
  • Visual Agent: Intelligently generates matching style graphics, supporting visual effects at the level of Midjourney;
  • Code Agent: Detects logical errors in real-time, optimizes performance, and improves readability, avoiding the embarrassment of "not working";
  • Preview Agent: Supports real-time interactive previews across mobile, tablet, and PC, with instant feedback upon clicking.

All Agents are managed by a central control Agent, completing the entire process from requirement understanding, material generation, code writing, to multi-device testing without any manual intervention, truly achieving "requirements in, product out."

Currently Focused on Frontend, Backend Capabilities Are Coming Next

Note that the current version mainly targets frontend interaction scenarios, suitable for activity H5s, portfolios, data visualization, marketing landing pages, etc., and does not currently support backend logic such as databases or user login. However, the official has revealed that capabilities such as API integration, dynamic data sources, and user systems are already in development, and future updates will support end-to-end construction of complete web applications.

AIbase Observation: The Rise of China's "Bubble," Accelerating the Democratization of Programming

From GitHub Copilot to Cursor, global AI programming tools have focused on improving developer efficiency. But Doubao, with its "visual + Agent" combination, has expanded its target users to non-technical people such as product managers, operators, and designers. AIbase believes this is not just a tool upgrade, but a redefinition of productivity paradigms—when 95% of interactive pages can be self-generated by business stakeholders, development resources will truly focus on core systems and innovative functions.

The barrier to programming is being completely shattered by AI. And Doubao may be the most anticipated "citizen development platform" in China's low-code ecosystem.

Experience now: https://www.doubao.com/code/chat