Is vibe coding a real skill or a passing fad?
The name may age, the activity will not. Describing software precisely, reading what a model produces and steering it with tests is how a growing share of professional programming already works. What is a fad is the version where nobody ever looks at the code; that version produces demos, not products, and the difference between the two is exactly what a good class teaches.
Who invented the term vibe coding?
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former AI director at Tesla, used it in a post in February 2025 to describe building software by talking to a model and, in his words, forgetting that the code even exists. The word spread fast enough that Collins Dictionary named it word of the year for 2025, about ten months after it was coined.
Can my ten year old vibe code?
Not with the mainstream chat tools, and any class that says otherwise has not read the terms. ChatGPT requires users to be 13 with parental permission to 17, and several major tools set the floor at 18. Under 13, our students build the same describe-and-steer instinct inside Scratch and teacher-operated tools, where no personal AI account is needed, and graduate to the real tools at the published ages.
Is vibe coding cheating?
It is cheating in the same sense a calculator is cheating in an engineering office, which is to say it depends what you were supposed to be learning. If the goal of an exercise is to practise writing loops, having a model write them defeats the exercise. If the goal is to ship a working tool, directing a model well is simply how the work is done now. Schools are still drawing this line and we teach students to respect whichever side of it an assignment sits on.
Do you still need to learn to read code?
Yes, and this is the least negotiable part. Our session log above shows why: the whole project stalled on one line that anyone with basic reading skill spots in seconds and the model kept missing. You do not need to write every line any more. You do need to be able to read the lines, or you have no way of knowing what you just shipped.
Which tools do your classes actually use?
It depends on the student's age, because the tools set their own floors. Under 13 it is Scratch plus teacher-run demonstrations. From 13, with parental consent, students work in mainstream assistants and browser development tools that permit teenagers. From 18, the full professional set opens up, including terminal-based coding agents. We publish the full tool-by-tool age audit on our AI tools age guide and we do not quietly break those floors.
What does it cost to learn here?
Outside India the figures are flat everywhere: USD 100 a month for a small group batch and USD 150 a month for private one to one teaching. There is no joining fee and no lock-in, and the first session is a free real class rather than a sales demonstration.
Is vibe coding safe for a teenager to do alone?
The risks are mundane rather than dramatic: pasting personal data into prompts, deploying something with an exposed key in it, and picking up the habit of shipping code nobody has read. All three are avoidable with rules a teenager will actually follow, and we build those rules into the class rather than leaving them to a lecture. A parent does not need to supervise the coding; they do need to know which accounts exist and in whose name.
How is vibe coding different from agentic coding?
Vibe coding is the conversational loop: you describe, the model writes, you react. Agentic coding hands the model more autonomy, letting it plan multi-step work, run commands and edit many files before coming back to you. Agentic tools are stricter about age, mostly 18 plus, and we teach them as a separate later stage with its own page and course.
What happens after I fill in the form on this page?
One of our mentors phones you, usually the same day, to find a slot for the free class and to ask what the learner already knows. In that class the student builds something small by describing it, then reads the generated code with the teacher. You watch, and afterwards you decide with no follow-up pressure from us.
