Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.
InfoWorld

Output from vibe coding tools prone to critical security flaws, study finds

The assessment, which it conducted in December 2025, compared five of the best-known vibe coding tools — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Replit, and Devin — by using pre-defined prompts to build ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up

AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become ...
MIT Technology Review

Generative coding

AI coding tools are rapidly changing how we produce software, and the industry is embracing it—perhaps at the expense of ...
IEEE

Learning-Based Video Compression with Continuously Variable Bitrate Coding

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a learning-based video compression which can perform continuously variable bitrate coding. The proposed method generates feature transformation parameters through a ...