From Playground to Code: Three Versions of One Prompt in Google AI Studio

A few weeks ago I wrote a breakdown of Cloud Next '26 for developers Link to keynote and closed it with a line to other frontend devs: play with Agent Studio. I took my own advice. I tried to take my own advice and faced a technical issue with Google Cloud's new prepayment wall and pivoted. This post is what happened next: spending an hour in Google AI Studio, iterating one prompt three times and finishing with Typescript I could drop into a Next.js project. No billing required, no Cloud project