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.

I tried vibe coding an app as a beginner - here's what Cursor and Replit taught me

I tried four vibe-coding tools, including Cursor and Replit, with no coding background. Here's what worked (and what didn't).

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Like all AI models based on the Transformer architecture, the large language models (LLMs) that underpin today’s coding ...
Hackaday

Optimizing Software With Zero-Copy And Other Techniques

An important aspect in software engineering is the ability to distinguish between premature, unnecessary, and necessary ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance ...

‘A new era of software development’: Claude Code has Seattle engineers buzzing as AI coding hits new phase

More than 150 techies packed the house at a Claude Code meetup event in Seattle on Thursday evening, eager to trade use cases ...
Journal of Accountancy

AICPA tax policy and advocacy successes: 2025 highlights

The AICPA’s Tax Division volunteer committees and technical resource panels can point to many positive results last year from its advocacy to Treasury, the IRS, and Congress for law changes and ...
Michigan Technological University

What is Software Engineering?

Software engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and ...
NPR

Code Switch

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...