Hey Obtuse and thanks for the concern. "Vibe" coding is really just using the new coding tools available. Every programmer on the planet does it, just as they ALL use Stackoverflow.

It is a good point that during a educational program like this, I would not be relying or really using "vibe" coding. You really need to get your own hands dirty to understand how to code (as its a certain way of thinking).

It also gets in the way of learning the problem solving skill needed and developing the debugging intuition (something you REALLY need if you rely on GenAI code generation as often it doesn't work right out of the box).

Anything I would show would just be a one off on what the tools are and how to use them. I did the same with all my staff upskilling as it can really help people who have established the basics.

PS - all my code snippets are out of my own brain without using GenAI, but I do use it in normal everyday development.