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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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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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 ...

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment ...

OpenAI Codex Made Simple, from Installation to MCP Tools & VSCode Tips

Get started with OpenAI Codex AI coding assistant. Learn how Codex connects to MCP servers like Figma and Jira, pulling docs ...

10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

As independent AI researcher Simon Willison wrote in a post distinguishing serious AI-assisted development from casual “ vibe ...