I'm pretty much on the no-AI side (learning, art, decision making, etc.), but this is the kind of thing I can appreciate. I suppose OP didn't want to learn more about coding this kind of visualization, but rather learn from the visualization. Any tool that can help with that is acceptable, whether it produces code or not. That the tool produced code has the advantage that OP can share this with us. I only hope it doesn't contain fundamental errors, because that would make this project a negative contribution.

Sure, I don’t discard the contribution altogether, but I am dubious that it is possible to properly draw the line between what to vibe code and what to do it “by hand” to make sure you get the benefits of building.

Errors are just nonsense that shows up in the console until you spend more tokens to make them go bye bye, right? I think you're talking more about the idea of true and false information, which is such a human bias. Will it really matter to anyone in 5 years whether this accurately depicts phages? By then AI will have solved everything. /s