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This week shifts from learning about AI to actually building with it. You will use a technique called vibe coding to create a working app or tool from scratch, using nothing but plain language prompts. By the end of this session, you will have something real to show, and a process you can repeat back in your own work.

What is vibe coding

Understand the concept, where it came from, and the three ways leaders are using it right now.

Choose your tool

Compare Google AI Studio, Claude Code, and Replit — and know when to use each one.

Build with Google AI Studio

Follow the step-by-step process used in this week’s live demo to build and iterate your app.

Your challenge

Use the guided prompt to build something useful for your own role — then share it.

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What to expect this week

This session has three parts: a live demo, a hands-on build, and a show-and-tell. The demo walks through the full process of building an app from a prompt — including how to iterate on the result, fix issues, and add features mid-way through. The hands-on section gives you time to build your own. You will leave with something working.

Live demo

Watch the full build process from first prompt to working app. Pay attention to how the prompts evolve — the first one is rarely the last.

Hands-on build

You get 20 minutes to build. Use Google AI Studio and the guided prompt framework from this week to get started quickly.

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What you’ll need

Before diving in, make sure you have access to Google AI Studio. Sign in at aistudio.google.com/apps using your Pathfindr-provisioned Google licence.
Open two tabs: one for Google AI Studio (the builder) and one for ChatGPT chat (your brainstorming partner). You will use both together.

Start here: what is vibe coding?

Begin with the concept, then move through to the build