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 ...
GitHub

coding-for-beginners

Real-Life Web Projects — Hands-on coding tutorials using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Build practical apps like timers, recipe finders, note walls, and more.
GitHub

Reactive UI with zero boilerplate.

Fict is a UI library where you write plain JavaScript and the compiler figures out the reactivity. Write JavaScript; let the compiler handle signals, derived values, and DOM updates. It’s a new way to ...
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 ...