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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Text analytics with Python : a practical real-world approach to gaining actionable insights from your data

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GitHub

Replace tokens in text files with values from the command-line, files or environment variables.

replacetokens --sources [--add-bom] [--case-insensitive-paths] [--chars-to-escape] [--encoding] [--escape {auto, off, json, xml, custom}] [--escape-char] [--help ...
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

Boosting Image-Text Detection Performance with Python Tesseract and the Tesseract OCR Engine

Abstract: There is a sudden increase in digital data as well as a rising demand for extracting text efficiently from images. These two led to full optical character recognition systems are introduced ...