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.

AI Is Moving Beyond Chatbots. Claude Cowork Shows What Comes Next

An AI powerful enough to analyze DNA, file taxes, and grow tomato plants is being redesigned for everyday work, pointing ...
IEEE

An Empirical Study of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Code Change Learning and Beyond

Abstract: Compared to Full-Model Fine-Tuning (FMFT), Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has demonstrated superior efficacy and efficiency in several code understanding tasks, owing to PEFT’s ...
The New York Times

In Washington, Birds Are Giving ‘Yelp Reviews’ of Forest Restoration Work

A collective of land trusts, conservancies and tribes is capturing birdsong with audio gear and A.I. for clues about habitat health. Credit... Supported by By Cara Buckley Visuals by Meron Menghistab ...
Frontiers

PiCCO hemodynamic parameters in cardiogenic shock: prediction of LVEF, NT-proBNP and MACE based on XGBoost machine learning model

Department of Cardiology, Shanghai East Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Introduction: This study used the Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) machine learning model to ...
GeekWire

Code.org CEO rips NY Times for stoking ‘populist fears’ over computer science jobs and AI

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...
GitHub

splitCsv with skip parameter does not work as expected when file contains a blank line

I'm trying to parse the output of the mummer tool "show-coords" (tabular format) using splitCsv. splitCsv puts an element in its output channel that reflects the header as a data row, regardless of ...
GitHub

Easily generate expression menus and and parameter lists with code.

Add my VCC repo (https://kaoruboy.github.io/vcc) or download the .unitypackage from the Releases page. This library allows you to generate Expression Menus and Parameters using code. Intended to be ...
Maine Public

In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking notice

People who are incarcerated are paid notoriously low wages for kitchen, laundry work and maintenance. But the expanded use of laptops is creating other opportunities. This is part two in a two-part ...
NPR

Protests are near constant. Do they work?

To the casual observer, it might seem like the U.S. has been spent years and years in a constant state of protest, from the Women's March in 2017 to the racial uprisings in 2020 to the No Kings ...
Cloud Security Alliance

Understanding Security Risks in AI-Generated Code

Written by Andrew Stiefel, Endor Labs. AI coding assistants are changing the game for developers. They offer speed, convenience, and a way to fill knowledge gaps for busy engineering teams. With just ...