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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I ditched proprietary Markdown editors for this open-source alternative

VSCodium has become the go-to Markdown editor for many, offering a free, open-source, and feature-rich alternative to other ...

I let Anthropic's Claude cowork loose on my files, and it was both brilliant and scary

ZDNET's key takeaways Agentic file management shows real productivity promise.Security, scale, and trust remain major open ...
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VAR: a new visual generation method elevates GPT-style models beyond diffusion & Scaling laws observed

🕹ī¸ Try and Play with VAR! We provide a demo website for you to play with VAR models and generate images interactively. Enjoy the fun of visual autoregressive modeling! We provide a demo website for ...

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.

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 ...
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Output from vibe coding tools prone to critical security flaws, study finds

The assessment, which it conducted in December 2025, compared five of the best-known vibe coding tools — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Replit, and Devin — by using pre-defined prompts to build ...