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

Visual Sort: A User-Friendly GUI for Tree Canopy Segmentation

Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI), is a visual way for users to interact with software, utilizing graphical elements like icons, buttons, and windows instead of text commands. It enhances user ...
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

Apple Studio Display Brightness GUI

For work I daily drive PCs running Arch & Fedora with my Apple Studio Display plugged in via Thunderbolt, Apple's decision to not put physical buttons on the display makes it impossible to adjust the ...