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

Look for older RHEL/Fedora /etc/pki/tls cert store location

RHEL 8 (supported until 2029) and below, including Fedora 33 and below, do not ship an /etc/ssl/cert.pem or a hashed /etc/ssl/cert/ directory, so our build of OpenSSL does not pick up platform certs.
GitHub

Wrongly capitalizes module name: "Requests"

>>> pipreqs . --force --encoding=utf-8 --mode no-pin --debug DEBUG: Found packages: {'time', 'subprocess', 'urllib', 'sys', 'typing', 'requests', 'logging', 'os ...
Associated Press

The Justice Department seeks voter and election information from at least 19 states, AP finds

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows ...
marktechpost

Building an Interactive Weather Data Scraper in Google Colab: A Code Guide to Extract, Display, and Download Live Forecast Data Using Python, BeautifulSoup, Requests, Pandas ...

First, we install three essential libraries: BeautifulSoup4 for parsing HTML content, ipywidgets for creating interactive elements, and pandas for data manipulation and analysis. Running it in your ...