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.
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 ...
GitHub

Convolutional Networks with Oriented 1D Kernels

@article{kirchmeyer2023convolutional, title={Convolutional Networks with Oriented 1D Kernels}, author={Kirchmeyer, Alexandre and Deng, Jia}, journal={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International ...
IEEE

Tail-Biting Convolutional Codes for URLLC: Low-Complexity List Decoding and Rate-Compatible Construction

Abstract: Cyclic redundancy check-aided tail-biting convolutional code (CRC-TBCC) is considered as a competitive candidate for ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) in short-length ...
IEEE

Derivation of Mutual Information and Linear Minimum Mean-Square Error for Viterbi Decoding of Convolutional Codes Using the Innovations Method

Abstract: We apply the innovations method to Viterbi decoding of convolutional codes. First, we calculate the covariance matrix of the innovation (i.e., the soft-decision input to the main decoder in ...