Vibe Coding: Building Software with Intent
Like Duolingo, but for Vibe Coding: Building Software with Intent. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
24 levels across 4 sections, about 48 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Shift to Intent-Based Building, Mastering the AI Agent Workflow, Refining and Debugging the Vibe, and The Vibe Coder's Toolkit. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Vibe Coding: Building Software with Intent
- Vibe coding focuses on describing the desired user experience or outcome
- Plain English (natural language) is the primary input for creating features
- Manual coding focuses on specific implementation details like CSS variables or state hooks
- Prioritizing the 'what' over the 'how' in a vibe-coding workflow
- The AI handles the underlying architecture so the user can focus on the feature's purpose
- The AI acts as a translator between human intent and machine code
- Understanding natural language as the interface for code generation
- The loop starts with a description of intent
- The AI generates the code immediately
- Immediate visual or functional feedback allows for rapid correction
- The sequence of the near-instant vibe-coding feedback loop
- Conversational iteration replaces manual line-by-line editing
- Syntax is the 'grammar' of code, while logic is the 'plan'—vibe coding lets you focus on the plan
- Logic can be verified by testing the behavior of the app, not just reading the code
- Iterating through conversation vs manual refactoring
- You can ask the AI to explain the logic of what it just built in plain terms
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Vibe Coding: Building Software with Intent the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What is the main 'tool' you use to tell the AI what to build in vibe coding?
Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.
Where Vibe Coding: Building Software with Intent takes you
Learn to build functional applications by describing your vision rather than writing syntax. This course covers the mindset, tools, and workflows of the new era of AI-driven development.
- 1
The Shift to Intent-Based Building
- Your First Vibe-Coded Feature
- Thinking in Outcomes, Not Steps
- 2
Mastering the AI Agent Workflow
- Navigating the Vibe-Coding IDE
- Managing Context and Project Knowledge
- 3
Refining and Debugging the Vibe
- When the Vibe is Off
- Polishing and Styling with Language
- 4
The Vibe Coder's Toolkit
- Choosing Your AI Power Tools
- The Future of the Vibe Engineer
4 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Vibe Coding: Building Software with Intent is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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