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.
GitHub

VAST: MLIR for Program Analysis

VAST is a library for program analysis and instrumentation of C/C++ and related languages. VAST provides a foundation for customizable program representation for a broad spectrum of analyses. Using ...
IEEE

Bridging the Gap: A Python-to-Structured Text Compiler with IEC 61131-3 Compliance

Abstract: This paper introduces a high-level language compiler with IEC 61131–3 compliance capable of converting control function code written in Python into structured text. The Python-to-Structured ...
IEEE

Python Subset to Digital Logic Dataflow Compiler for Robots and IoT

Abstract: Robots and IoT devices must process real-time signals using embedded systems with limited power and clock speeds – rather than large CPUs or GPUs. FPGAs offer highly parallel computation, ...
GitHub

NOAA-GFDL/fre-cli

# Create new conda enironment conda create -n [environmentName] # Append necessary channels conda config --append channels noaa-gfdl conda config --append channels conda-forge # Run `conda install` on ...