I tried four vibe-coding tools, including Cursor and Replit, with no coding background. Here's what worked (and what didn't).

VibeOS was produced by a computer engineering student using the latest version of Anthropic’s Claude large language model.

running R code inside Python quickly transferring huge datasets between Python (NumPy/pandas/polars) and R without writing to disk interactively working in both languages at the same time ...

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.