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.
Times Union

Albany codes chief to depart in Applyrs' first department shakeup

The building at 241 Western Ave., where a fire on Dec. 4 killed two young adults — Sahaja Udumala, a 24-year-old woman, and a man named Anvesh Sarepalli — and injured two others, did not have a ...
The New York Times

Trump Says ‘Housing First’ Failed the Homeless. Here’s What the Evidence Says.

The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents consider overly permissive. By Jason DeParle When the Trump administration ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Is About to Make Its Closest Approach to Earth. Here’s How to View It With Binoculars or a Telescope

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which is investigating a group of asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the sun, snapped this image on September 16 as 3I/ATLAS approached Mars. NASA / Goddard / SwRI / ...
Business Insider

DeFi Protocol Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Approaches $20M in Funding Milestone With Core Features Finalized

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mutuum Finance (MUTM) continues to advance through a key stage of its development as total funding moves closer to the $20M mark and ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
Newsweek

Dabo Swinney Announces Major Change to Clemson’s Approach

Dabo Swinney and the Clemson Tigers finished their 2025 regular season strong, notching four straight victories to close out the year. With a 7-5 record, Clemson now awaits its bowl game assignment.
SiliconANGLE

Anthropic makes first acquisition with purchase of Bun to accelerate Claude Code

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC today announced it had made its first acquisition in acquiring developer tools startup Bun for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2019, Bun offers an all-in ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as Google Threatens AI Lead

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
CBSSports.com

First college basketball NET rankings released by NCAA: Michigan lands at No. 1 ahead of Duke in key metric

The first official release of the 2025-26 men's college basketball NET rankings, a ranking system utilized as a sorting tool for NCAA Tournament selection committee that factors in winning percentage, ...
Sports Illustrated

Where Wisconsin Badgers basketball landed in the first NET rankings of 2025-26

Benjamin Worgull has covered Wisconsin men's basketball since 2004, having previously written for Rivals, USA Today, 247sports, Fox Sports, the Associated Press, the Janesville Gazette, and the ...