Intentional AI: Building with Vibe Coding

Build an AI-powered app with vibe coding - no experience needed. Explore ethics, security, and impact in this hands-on workshop.

Delivered by: Paula Del Castillo Vivero and Shaun Ring, LHC Labs

Vibe coding is a new approach to software development where you describe what you want in everyday language and AI builds it for you. No programming knowledge required. It's fast, accessible, and genuinely impressive, but it also raises questions that most introductions skip over entirely.

This hands-on workshop from LHC Labs teaches participants to build working apps using vibe coding tools and to think critically about what they're building. We cover the real issues: security, privacy, cost, environmental impact, ethics, and access. Participants will brainstorm, plan, and build their own app in the session, leaving with something that actually works and a clearer understanding of how to use AI tools responsibly.

No coding experience needed. Just curiosity and a laptop.

The workshop is open to Sussex researchers at all levels - please register using your @sussex.ac.uk email address. Refreshments will be provided.

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This workshop is part of The Digital Methods Accelerator (DMA) programme 2025-26, a series of in-person workshops aimed at Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities researchers at all levels wanting to explore and skill up on digital methods for their research.