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.
InfoWorld

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 ...

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 ...
Visual Studio Magazine

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 ...
How-To Geek on MSN

5 VS Code alternatives optimized for specific jobs

Antigravity is a proprietary fork of VS Code that tightly integrates Google's Gemini 3 models, giving you an edge if you want ...
The New York Times

Climate and Environment

Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now. By Raymond Zhong Construction can continue on an $11.2 billion project off the ...
Science Daily

Top Science News

Jan. 17, 2026 Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of tiny earthquakes that are far too weak to feel. These faint ...