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.
IEEE

Balancing Security and Correctness in Code Generation: An Empirical Study on Commercial Large Language Models

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) continue to be adopted for a multitude of previously manual tasks, with code generation as a prominent use. Multiple commercial models have seen wide adoption ...
GitHub

A multi-language code evaluation tool.

Environment integration: When evaluating code, various environments need to be pre-installed, such as JDK for Java, Node for JavaScript, various versions of numpy and torch in DS1000, etc. This ...