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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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 ...
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Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware

Active malware exploits DLL side-loading in a signed GitKraken binary to deliver trojans, stealers, and remote access malware ...

Orchestral replaces LangChain’s complexity with reproducible, provider-agnostic LLM orchestration

A new orchestration approach, called Orchestral, is betting that enterprises and researchers want a more integrated way to ...
GitHub

Tree-Shu-Zhao/ITQ_PyTorch

usage: run.py [-h] [--dataset DATASET] [--root ROOT] [--code-length CODE_LENGTH] [--max-iter MAX_ITER] [--topk TOPK] [--gpu GPU] ITQ_PyTorch optional arguments: -h ...
IEEE

Non-Binary Covering Codes for Low-Access Computations

Abstract: Given a real dataset and a computation family, we wish to encode and store the dataset in a distributed system so that any computation from the family can be performed by accessing a small ...
GitHub

Reverse Engineering: Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models

During compilation, the Preprocessor processes the source code (SRC) to eliminate comments and expand macros or includes. The cleaned code is then forwarded to the Compiler, which converts it into ...
IEEE

An Upper and a Lower Bound on the Probability of an Undetected Error for Binary Expansions of Generalized Reed-Solomon Codes

Abstract: By utilizing certain characteristic structure of the Hamming weight distribution of maximum distance separable codes, we can get weight enumerators to ...