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).

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.
GitHub

A Python-based AI agent that replicates Cursor's coding assistant capabilities, enabling function calling, code generation, and intelligent coding assistance with Claude ...

read_file: Read file contents with flexible line range control edit_file: Make precise edits to files with clear instructions Supports complete file replacement ...
IEEE

Interactive Cross-Language Pointer Analysis for Resolving Native Code in Java Programs

Abstract: Java offers the Java Native Interface (JNI), which allows programs running in the Java Virtual Machine to invoke and be manipulated by native applications and libraries written in other ...
The New York Times

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems. Self-service kiosks at the ...
GitHub

Collection of tools to detect oceanic fronts in Python.

Despite being widely used in the literature, some front-detection algorithms are not easily available in Python. This packages implements different methods directly in Python: they are accelerated by ...