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.
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code December 2025 Update Puts AI 'Agent Skills' Front and Center

Visual Studio Code 1.108 expands AI capabilities with experimental Agent Skills for Copilot, alongside updates to chat ...
MUO on MSN

5 reasons I stopped using Command Prompt and switched to Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal brings that same vibe to the desktop, giving you the ability to open and use the Windows Terminal in Quake ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up

AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become ...

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

Why ‘boring’ VS Code keeps winning

Meanwhile, the model layer keeps whiplashing. First, everyone used ChatGPT. Then Gemini was catching up. Now, it seems Claude ...
InfoWorld

Astro web framework maker merges with Cloudflare

The merger with Cloudflare follows the release of Astro 6 beta, which features development server updates to improve Astro’s ...
CNET

A Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT: How to Get Started With the AI Chatbot

You can use ChatGPT as a search engine, much like Google's home page. Go to chatgpt.com or download the ChatGPT app on ...
The New York Times

The New York Times inEducation

New York Times inEducation has been designed as a resource to connect Times journalism with key areas of study for students and faculty through our Education and Library Subscription Program. If you ...