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

Air Combat Maneuvering Decision-making Based on Approximate Dynamic Programming

Abstract: To address the curse of dimensionality inherent in applying dynamic programming to air combat maneuver decision-making tasks, this paper proposes an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) ...
Frontiers

Dynamic duo of bacteria could change Mars dust into versatile building material for first human colonists

Dr Shiva Khoshtinat is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'Giulio Natta' at Politecnico di Milano. With an interdisciplinary background ...
IEEE

Autonomous Driving Using Spiking Neural Networks on Dynamic Vision Sensor Data: A Case Study of Traffic Light Change Detection

Abstract: Autonomous driving is a challenging task that has gained broad attention from both academia and industry. Current solutions using convolutional neural networks require large amounts of ...