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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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 ...
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Aligning Crowd-Sourced Human Feedback for Reinforcement Learning on Code Generation by Large Language Models

Abstract: This paper studies how AI-assisted programming and large language models (LLM) improve software developers' ability via AI tools (LLM agents) like Github Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, ...