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 ...
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 ...
GitHub

Cody for Visual Studio

Sourcegraph’s AI code assistant goes beyond individual dev productivity, helping you achieve consistency and quality at scale with AI. Sourcegraph accelerates the entire workflow for developers by ...
GitHub

CodeSonar Extension for Visual Studio Code

This extension from CodeSecure provides access to static code analysis results from a CodeSonar hub inside Visual Studio Code. You will also need access to a CodeSonar hub running CodeSonar 7.1p0 or ...
TechRadar

Vibe code a gift this Christmas: my helpful guide for last-minute crafting

2025 has seen the emergence of many AI tools which make creating apps easily accessible for people with little to zero coding experience. If you can imagine it, in just a few hours you can create it - ...