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.
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Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to generate code, optimize code, fix bugs, and create unit tests, right from within your IDE ...
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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 ...
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An AI Agent with optional Human-in-the-Loop Safety, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, and beautiful, themeable CLI output

Agent Loop is a command-line AI assistant. It leverages Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's GPT models and a suite of powerful tools to automate, inspect, and manage your development environment—while ...