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

Design of VY: A Mini Visual IDE for the Development of GUI in Embedded Devices

Abstract: Graphical user interface (GUI) for applications of embedded devices (ED) has been increasingly in demand. Rapid GUI development tools are being required more than ever. However, traditional ...
IEEE

Eye-Blink and SSVEP-Based Selective Attention Interface for XR User Authentication: An Explainable Neural Decoding and Machine Learning Approach to Reducing Visual Fatigue

Abstract: The growing demand for secure, immersive authentication in extended reality (XR) environments calls for neural interfaces that are both robust and user-friendly. This study introduces a ...
GitHub

[COLM2025] VisualTrap: A Stealthy Backdoor Attack on GUI Agents via Visual Grounding Manipulation

Step 3: get test poison input data(both pretrain and downstream) ## get the poison pretrain screenspot poison input test data bash poison_utils/generate_poison_test ...
GitHub

A multi-model deliberation engine for LM Studio

PolyCouncil is an open-source application that orchestrates multiple local Large Language Models (LLMs) running in LM Studio. Instead of querying a single model, PolyCouncil runs multiple models in ...