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.
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Baidu's ERNIE 5 AI Model Rises Up the Rankings—A Math Wiz That Beats OpenAI's GPT 5.1

Baidu's ERNIE-5.0-0110 ranks #8 globally on LMArena, becoming the only Chinese model in the top 10 while outperforming ...
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Building Real-Time Systems: From Sensor Data to Natural Language Queries

The session highlights how InfluxDB 3 enables low-latency analytics and how MCP makes real-time data easier to explore. The talk will include a live demo where we will ask questions like “Is the ...