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

Data-Reuse Recursive Least-Squares Algorithms

Abstract: There are different strategies to improve the overall performance of the recursive least-squares (RLS) adaptive filter. In this letter, we focus on the data-reuse approach, aiming to improve ...
GitHub

EO-College tomography tutorial

The following subsections describe the installation process for different operating systems. Please mind that this tutorial depends on Python 3. First we want to ...
GitHub

scikit-mobility - mobility analysis in Python

represent trajectories and mobility flows with proper data structures, TrajDataFrame and FlowDataFrame. manage and manipulate mobility data of various formats (call detail records, GPS data, data from ...