Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

Google and Kaggle’s “AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding” course had expert-led sessions, technical whitepapers and notebooks, and capstone projects.

AI is moving faster than traditional methods of learning and teaching can keep up with it. With new concepts, skills, ideas, and tools arriving almost daily, we needed a new way to teach and learn these new technologies.

Since Google and Kaggle’s first “5 Day Intensive” course in 2024 more than 2 million learners and developers have participated in the multimodal, no cost courses. Our latest collaboration, the 5-Day AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding Course with Google, had over 353,000 registered participants. Together, we explored the frontier of vibe coding, where people program through natural language. Our courses navigated the entire lifecycle of designing, securing, and deploying production-grade AI agents in the cloud. The response proved that developers are ready to graduate their prototypes “from vibe to live”.

Hundreds of thousands of learners gathered across codelabs and technical whitepapers to collaborate in real time. The heart of this collaboration was on Kaggle’s Discord, where over 392,000 active participants swapped code, debugged together, and formed study groups.

The capstone projects brought the week’s learning into action. We received over 6,000 project submissions from more than 12,000 active capstone participants.

The projects demonstrated the immense creativity, technical skill, and imagination of the global AI developer community. From advanced digital humanities tools like the historical manuscript transcription pipeline Palimpsest, to sophisticated space-weather research systems like Project ARIES, the caliber of submissions made it incredibly difficult to narrow down the top entries. You can explore all the winning teams and their capstone projects on our website.

We look forward to continuing our partnership and exploring future learning opportunities. If you’re interested in learning more, you can continue honing your skills through ongoing Kaggle competitions and stay connected with fellow learners on the Kaggle Discord. For those who missed the live event in June but still want to learn, all course content remains available as a self-paced Kaggle Learn guide.

Google and Kaggle's GenAI Intensive Vibe Coding course 2026

The 353,000-person vibe coding course refers to the 5-Day AI Agents: Intensive Vibe Coding Course, a highly popular, free program hosted jointly by Google and Kaggle. The initiative focused on “vibe coding”—a modern development paradigm where developers use natural language as the primary programming interface to build, test, and deploy production-ready AI agents. [1, 2]

Key Highlights of the Intensive

Massive Global Scale: More than 353,000 developers registered for the intensive program, expanding on Kaggle’s broader series of developer courses. [1, 3]
Active Collaboration: The live cohort featured over 392,000 active participants engaging on Discord to share workflows, debug code, and review technical whitepapers. [1, 4]
Impressive Output: The intensive resulted in more than 6,000 capstone project submissions from 12,000 core developers. Submissions ranged from automated historical manuscript transcription tools to space-weather monitoring systems. [1, 5]
Focus on “Vibe to Live”: Lessons emphasized moving rapidly from a simple prompt or conceptual prototype to a fully deployable, live application. [1, 5]

Current Status and Core Materials

Though the live cohort concluded, the training materials remain entirely open to the public: [5, 6] from Inside our

Self-Paced Learning: All recorded expert sessions, notebooks, and coding frameworks have been archived as a self-paced guide directly on the Kaggle Learn Website.
Video Playlists: The full course playlist and supplementary walkthroughs are accessible across public developer channels on YouTube. [1, 2, 5, 7]

Would you like to explore the specific syllabus modules covered in the course, or do you need help getting started with vibe coding tools like Google AI Studio?