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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Vibe coding is the practice of instructing AI to write code using plain English prompts. CEOs like Google’s Sundar Pichai and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang have touted AI’s ability to write code. I put vibe ...