Vibe Coding
Build real apps with AI — describe, review, debug, and ship without writing code from scratch
10 phases. 48 lessons. 48 practice reps. 1 capstone. No coding experience required. Learn to build real working apps by describing what you want to AI tools — Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, v0, Bolt.new, Replit Agent — through a tool-agnostic workflow that teaches you to plan before building, review AI-generated code, debug when things break, write context files, manage real data and auth, deploy to production, and avoid the security traps that have already taken down real vibe-coded apps. You fi
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- Level: Beginner
Curriculum
- Vibe Coding Fundamentals — What vibe coding actually is (Karpathy's framing, what changed to make it possible), the director-not-typist mental model, what vibe coding is good for and not, the struggle-before-automation principle, your first end-to-end build
- The Tool Landscape — Four categories of vibe coding tools (terminal agents, IDE-native, browser app-builders, design-to-code), the decision matrix for choosing a tool, setting up a browser app builder, setting up a terminal or IDE agent, evaluating any new tool in ten minutes
- Describing What You Want — Plain English specs that work, plan-first-then-build habit, breaking big ideas into buildable chunks, iterating and giving specific feedback, prompting with images and screenshots
- Reading & Reviewing AI Code — Pattern recognition over syntax mastery, spotting red flags in AI output, asking AI to explain itself, git diffs as a safety net, verifying claims the AI makes
- When Things Break — The predict-before-reveal habit, pasting errors effectively, the explain-and-retry loop, when to patch vs start over, rollback and version control basics for non-engineers
- Context Engineering — Why agents forget and drift, writing your first context file (CLAUDE.md/cursorrules), keeping a long build on track, learning from real published context files
- Building With Real Data — From static prototype to real app, adding a database without being a DBA, user accounts and auth basics, secrets and environment variables, the local-vs-deployed gap
- Shipping — Deploying your first real app, custom domains and going live, what production actually means, having a rollback plan
- Security, Privacy & Judgment Traps — Real vibe-coded security incidents (Moltbook, Lovable, Base44, Orchids, Replit), sanity checks any non-engineer can run, the AI-agrees-with-you problem, privacy and user data responsibility, knowing when to call a real engineer
- Capstone: Ship a Real Project — Choosing a real project, planning and building your capstone, reviewing and hardening your capstone, shipping and sharing your capstone, capstone project and what's next
Skills You Will Learn
- AI-Assisted Building
- Plain-English Spec Writing
- AI Code Review
- Debugging AI Output
- Context Engineering
- Deployment
- Security Sanity Checks
- Production Readiness
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