# Vibe-Code in a Weekend — Cohort #4 Syllabus

A three-day live cohort. From "I have an AI idea" to "I deployed it and
my friends can try it" — in 48 hours.

**Format**: three live evenings (Fri/Sat/Sun, 2 hours each) + Slack
during the day. Cohort is capped at ~40 so I can read every code
review.

**Prereqs**: comfortable in any one programming language. You do *not*
need ML background. You will leave with a deployed agent + a repo you
can show.

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## Day 1 (Fri) — Pick a problem worth shipping

- Live: How I decide which AI problems are worth two days of my life.
  The "5x cheaper, 5x faster, 5x weirder" filter.
- Workshop: Each student picks an idea. I review every one and tell you
  whether to ship it or pick again. (~30 min of brutal honesty per
  cohort, on average.)
- Reading: my "Five eval mistakes I keep seeing" essay + the
  Anthropic prompt engineering tutorial.

## Day 2 (Sat) — Build the agent

- Live: walking through the `agents-101` starter — Next.js + Claude +
  Postgres. Why this stack, what the tradeoffs are.
- Workshop: by end of session, your agent runs end-to-end on localhost.
- Stretch: streaming, tool calls, persistent memory. Optional.

## Day 3 (Sun) — Ship and tell

- Live: Vercel deploy, a sane logging story, "this works on my machine"
  debugging across providers.
- Workshop: deploy. Share the URL in the cohort channel. Get feedback
  on the demo from peers, then from me.
- Closing: how you'd talk about this on X / LinkedIn / in interviews
  without sounding like a SaaS landing page.

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## What past cohorts shipped

- A RAG over a city's restaurant inspection PDFs. The student got
  three local press writeups in week two.
- A "your meeting transcript → a 3-bullet weekly status email"
  agent. Sold it to her own employer for $400/mo.
- A homemade eval harness for the founder's claims-extraction
  pipeline. Replaced an enterprise tool he was paying for.

## What's NOT in scope

- Fine-tuning. I'll point you at material if you want it.
- Vector DB shopping. We use Postgres + pgvector and stop debating.
- "How to go viral on Twitter." Not my expertise — go ask someone in
  the cohort.

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Refund policy: if you finish the weekend, did the work, and didn't
ship, I refund you. About 5% of past students have hit that bar; all
got refunded the same day they asked.

Questions: hi@kiranakamura.dev