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.
GitHub

mhpdev-com/react-native-speech

A high-performance text-to-speech library built for bare React Native and Expo, compatible with Android and iOS. It enables seamless speech management and provides events for detailed synthesis ...
GitHub

Private, local RAGs. Supercharge LLMs with your own knowledge base.

You will also need an embeddings model and a large language model. We recommend using @react-native-rag/executorch for on-device inference. To use it, install the ...
IEEE

CodeQA: Advanced Programming Question-Answering Using LLM Agent and RAG

Abstract: In light of this complex information for programming environments, this paper explores how effectiveness in Large Language Models and concepts from Retrieval-Augmented Generation can be used ...
IEEE

The Impact of Prompt Programming on Function-Level Code Generation

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used by software engineers for code generation. However, limitations of LLMs such as irrelevant or incorrect code have highlighted the need for ...
Ars Technica

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...