Week 1 of 5 · Class 1 of 10 · Tue 5/19
Vibecoding for someone else
Day one. Welcome, our first speaker, the yes-and warm-up, and the Week 1 build: vibecode a to-do list app for your partner, not for yourself.
View the Class 1 deck on Gamma →Pre-read · 10 min
Do this before class so the speaker session lands.
- How to Pick a Vibe-Coding Project You Can Actually Finish. Boris's piece.
- Vibe Coding Is a Moving Target — So Don't Marry the Tool. Boris's piece.
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Today's schedule
| 4:00–4:30 | Welcome + course expectations (Elizabeth) |
| 4:30–5:00 | Speaker: Boris Berenberg · z0.ai |
| 5:00–5:30 | Warm-up + Week 1 build kickoff |
Warm-up: let's plan a party
One partner pitches party ideas. The other responds three ways, in order. Same ideas, three energies. Feel how the third one changes everything.
Week 1 build: a to-do list for your partner
We know how we track our work, but how does someone else? Interview your partner, then build the to-do app they'd actually use. The real exercise: vibecoding for someone else, and yes-anding their changes.
Tue 5/19 · 30 min · in class
- 5 min: interview your partner: how do they track to-dos?
- 5 min: switch.
- 20 min: vibecode a digital to-do list for them.Any tool: Claude · ChatGPT · Lovable · Base44 · Cursor · v0.
- Show your partner what you built.
Thu 5/21 · 1 hour
- Share the app with your partner. What was their reaction?
- Each of you contributes to the other's project in code, then redeploys.
- Discuss pros/cons: what brings each person joy? What's a must-have?
- Combine the two to-do apps into one project.
Tue 5/26 · 30 min
- 2-minute team demo of your combined project.
The 4 interview questions
- Where does your to-do list live: paper or digital?
- What's great about your process?
- What's frustrating about it?
- Preferred vibe-coding stack: Lovable, Base44, Vercel, GitHub Pages, something else?
Ending criteria: 1 project per team
Week 1 teams
| 1 | Daniela Perilla + Arpit Gupta |
| 2 | Nikoo Beyzaei + Aviral Gupta |
| 3 | Ramin Talaie + Chris Thorne + Vijaya |
| 4 | John Dufresne + Dorincy Shen |
| 5 | Patricia Juarez + Daliso Zuze |
| 6 | Jeff Lash + Sabrina Abhyankar |
| 7 | Kevin Ko + Michael Krafft |
| 8 | Elizabeth Ferrao + Jocelyn Baun |
Speaker: Boris Berenberg · z0.ai
Founder of z0.ai: secure agent runtime infrastructure. Previously founded and sold Atlas Authority, was VP of Product post-acquisition, and built at Atlassian and Uber. A force in the AARM agent-governance standard, here to show what old-school IT discipline applied to LLM agents looks like.