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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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 ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

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 ...

Malicious Mac extensions steal crypto wallets and passwords

Mac users face new security threat as malware infiltrates trusted extension marketplaces, targeting cryptocurrency wallets ...
GitHub

newbpydev/mcp-diagnostics-extension

The MCP Diagnostics Extension bridges VS Code's powerful diagnostic system with the Model Context Protocol, enabling AI agents to access your code problems in real-time. Whether you're debugging ...