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

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Code Switch

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