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.
IEEE

Faster Region Based Convolutional Neural Network and VGG 16 for Multi-Class Tyre Defect Detection

Abstract: This paper intends to create a deep-learning architecture for training models over various defective tyre images until it has achieved intelligence to distinctly classify multi-class tyre ...
Gov

MMDA suspends number coding this holiday starting Dec. 23

PASIG CITY (PIA) – The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has announced the suspension of the expanded number coding scheme this holiday season. In its advisory, the suspension of the ...
PC World

I started ‘vibe coding’ my own apps with AI and I’m utterly loving it

On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...