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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Distributed Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Consensus Control of Multiagent Systems Within Hierarchical Stackelberg–Nash Game Framework

Abstract: This article investigates the leader-follower consensus for nonlinear multiagent systems (MASs) and proposes an adaptive dynamic programming (ADP)-based hierarchical Stackelberg-Nash optimal ...
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Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Optimal Control of Unknown LTI System via Interval Excitation

Abstract: In this article, we investigate the optimal control problem for an unknown linear time-invariant system. To solve this problem, a novel composite policy iteration algorithm based on adaptive ...