5-Day Free Course · AI Coding

Vibe Coding Build Real Apps with AI

Prompting Cursor and Claude Code to build features, debugging AI output, understanding enough code to direct the AI effectively, and deploying what you build. The course for non-programmers who want to build real software with AI in 2026.

5 days self-paced
Free forever
Text + external video refs
No signup required
vibe-coding$cursor open .AI: 'Here is the signup form'$vercel deploy --prod$
5
Days
30+
Code Examples
5+
External Videos
$0
Forever Free

No videos. On purpose.

This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on vibe coding you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.

Practitioner-tested, not vendor marketing

This course is built by engineers who ship vibe coding systems in production. It reflects how these tools actually behave at scale.

Code you can run, not demos to watch

Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify. Understanding comes through doing.

Links to the canonical sources

Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on vibe coding available.

Completes in 5 one-hour sessions

Each day is designed for about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No live classes, no quizzes.

The 5 Days

Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.

01Day One

How AI Coding Tools Actually Work

What Cursor, Claude Code, and Replit Agent do under the hood, context windows and why they matter for code generation, the prompting vocabulary that makes AI code assistants useful, and why vibe coding has real limits.

CursorClaude Codecontext windowprompting
02Day Two

Building Your First Feature with AI

The scaffold-then-refine workflow, prompting for a complete feature (database table, API route, UI component) step by step, reading AI-generated code enough to know when it's wrong, and the debugging loop when AI output doesn't work.

scaffoldfeature promptingdebugging AIreading code
03Day Three

Frontend: Building Interfaces with Prompts

Prompting for React components, Tailwind CSS styling, responsive layouts, and forms. The visual feedback loop — using the browser to evaluate AI output and iterate on prompts until the UI matches what you have in mind.

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04Day Four

Backend: APIs, Databases, and Auth

Prompting for Next.js API routes, Supabase tables with RLS, and authentication flows. How to tell if the database design AI generated is sensible, and the questions to ask when security matters.

API routesSupabaseauthenticationsecurity review
05Day Five

Deploying and Iterating

Deploying to Vercel in one command, custom domains, environment variables, the iteration workflow for a live app (prompt → test → deploy), and the honest limitations of vibe coding for production systems.

Vercel deployenvironment variablesiteration loopproduction limits

The best external videos on this topic.

Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.

Read the source.

The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.

Three kinds of people read this.

Non-Programmers With Product Ideas

You have an idea for a tool or app. AI coding tools make it buildable without years of programming. This course shows you how to work with those tools effectively.

Business Professionals Building Internal Tools

Operations teams, analysts, and product managers can build the internal tools their engineers are too busy to build. This course covers the vibe coding workflow for internal apps.

Beginners Who Tried Traditional Coding and Gave Up

Vibe coding removes the most frustrating parts of learning programming — syntax memorization and error message confusion. Start here, understand more over time.

Want to Go Deeper In Person?

The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers AI coding and vibe coding in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).

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