(y18.svg) (news.css@wCNqQJIYy0KyNICRHsdD.css) (item@id=49745403.html) Ask HN: What would you include in an academic workshop on vibe coding? | Hacker News  (https://news.ycombinator.com)   (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) Hacker News  (https://news.ycombinator.com/newest) new | (https://news.ycombinator.com/front) past | (https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments) comments | (https://news.ycombinator.com/ask) ask | (https://news.ycombinator.com/show) show | (https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs) jobs | (https://news.ycombinator.com/submit) submit   (https://news.ycombinator.com/login?goto=item%3Fid%3D49745403) login          (https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49745403&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49745403) (upvote)     (item@id=49745403.html) Ask HN: What would you include in an academic workshop on vibe coding?     1 point by (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cximenez) cximenez (2026-09-17T19:26:51) (item@id=49745403.html) 2 hours ago   | (https://news.ycombinator.com/hide?id=49745403&goto=item%3Fid%3D49745403) hide | (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Ask%20HN%3A%20What%20would%20you%20include%20in%20an%20academic%20workshop%20on%20vibe%20coding%3F&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) past | (https://news.ycombinator.com/fave?id=49745403&auth=594cb6e843f3e9a19f7993b06cba0d50b402a83d) favorite | (item@id=49745403.html) 1 comment     I'm the resident AI librarian at a research university, and we've received a request to host a vibe coding workshop next month. I have several ideas of what to demo, but I wanted to ask the HN community what they might recommend to include. The format will be 3 hours including initial setup support, experimentation time, and a brief showcase at the end.What kinds of tools, sites, workflows, articles, vibe-y code-y things etc., do you think folks at a research university might find useful to cover at such a workshop?     (49745403) (item?id=49745403) (64d51a6736912605281111477a5d63a000bf3aca)  (https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc) help  (add comment)      (https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49746586&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49745403) (upvote)     (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jahala) jahala (2026-09-17T21:08:49) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746586) 57 minutes ago   [–]     1. "ye old prompte" vs goals / loops / evals - how to utilize models in the best way is changing rapidly (exemplify with karpathy's autoresearch)2. agent harness - which harness fits best to the kind of work you are trying to do. pi vs claude code vs conductor.build etc.3. repo harness - how do you set up your repo for agents to (hypothetically) work consistently across vendors/models (claude.md, architecture.md, engineering.md - git hooks, agent hooks, etc)4. privacy - ensure using the correct settings to (at least hypothetically) avoid models being trained on your unpublished research (https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=49746586&goto=item%3Fid%3D49745403%2349746586) reply                (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) Guidelines | (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) FAQ | (https://news.ycombinator.com/lists) Lists | (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) API | (https://news.ycombinator.com/security.html) Security | (https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) Legal | (https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/) Apply to YC | (mailto:hn@ycombinator.com) Contact  Search: