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VideoAI EngineerVibe-coding
I Believe Everything My Agents Tell Me: Three Levels of Review — Corey Gallon, Rexmore
A short, practical talk on three levels of reviewing agent-written code so you don't blindly trust what your agents report.
Oct 13 · 12:25
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I Built the Ultimate AI Board of Advisors (free claude skill)
Nate Herk builds a multi-persona 'board of advisors' as a Claude skill and shares it free, a useful pattern to copy.
Oct 13 · 14:45
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Railway's Mahmoud Abdelwahab makes the case against sloppy one-shot SaaS replacements and shows what production-quality AI-built apps need.
Oct 12 · 13:21
VideoDavid OndrejVibe-coding
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Oct 11 · 1:00:57
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Nate Herk tests more than 100 GitHub repos for Claude and shares the six most useful, which could save you a lot of searching.
Oct 11 · 10:37
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From Your Laptop to the Pipeline: Scaling Custom Agents with GitHub Copilot
Walks through taking custom agents from a laptop into a real pipeline with GitHub Copilot, aimed at teams that ship.
Oct 10 · 19:39
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Building the Codex community
OpenAI's official look at the community growing around Codex, useful for finding workflows and people to learn from.
Oct 9 · 5:39
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Anthropic's official getting-started walkthrough for Claude Code Projects, the new way to organize context and work across a codebase.
Oct 9 · 4:33
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VS Code Live: Agent Host, Agents window, Blobby, UI Updates & Perf Improvements
The VS Code team demos the new Agent Host and Agents window live, plus UI and performance updates for running coding agents inside the editor.
Oct 9 · 51:23
VideoAI EngineerVibe-coding
Generation Is Cheap, Review Is Expensive: How to Stop Shipping AI Slop — Gabriel Martinez, G2i
Argues that generation is cheap and review is expensive, with practical advice for keeping AI-generated code from becoming slop.
Oct 9 · 17:18
VideoNate Herk | AI AutomationVibe-coding
Grok Bot Has 2 New Superpowers. Do These Things Now.
Nate Herk shows the two new Grok Bot capabilities that matter and exactly how to set them up with your existing Claude Code workflow.
Oct 9 · 9:11
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Scaling agentic coding practices across your team
Google Cloud on rolling agentic coding out across an engineering org: shared rules files, review gates and metrics so AI-written code stays maintainable.
Oct 8 · 12:31
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OpenAI Codex Tutorial for Beginners
A step-by-step beginner tutorial for OpenAI Codex: setting up, delegating tasks, reviewing diffs and shipping a working app without writing the code yourself.
Oct 8 · 17:11
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Production Monitoring with Codex: Grafana, Kubernetes, & Security
OpenAI shows Codex doing production monitoring with Grafana and Kubernetes, with security considerations covered.
Oct 8 · 7:59
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Nate Herk walks through the latest Claude Code release from Anthropic's engineers and the workflow changes that make it dramatically faster in practice.
Oct 8 · 12:23
VideoOpenAIVibe-coding
Codex Has Left The Laptop | DevDay 2026
OpenAI's DevDay session with live demos of what's new in Codex across CLI, app and web, moving from delegating tasks to handing Codex whole goals.
Oct 7 · 22:01
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Oct 7 · 33:33
VideoGoogle Cloud TechVibe-coding
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Astrocade's founders explain how text-only prompts become playable games, with a look at the product and its no-code approach.
Oct 6 · 38:01
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Cooking with Codex — Charlie Guo & Gabriel Chua, OpenAI
OpenAI's Charlie Guo and Gabriel Chua ship a macOS live-translation app from a Slack screenshot in four minutes, then show Codex plugins, computer use and the Chrome…
Oct 6 · 1:07:24
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Theo, who ships production code, tests ultrafast GPT inference for coding and says where the speed helps and where it breaks down.
Oct 6 · 28:17
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Shows how the OpenAI team uses ChatGPT Sites day to day, giving real workflows for building and shipping with it.
Oct 5 · 35:41
VideoTheo - t3․ggVibe-coding
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Oct 5 · 1:10:29
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Oct 5 · 3:15
VideoClaudeVibe-coding
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Official short demo of Mods in Claude Code, which let you customize how Claude Code behaves.
Oct 5 · 3:21
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Oct 3 · 34:34
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Oct 2 · 2:56:55
VideoNate Herk | AI AutomationVibe-coding
Claude Code Mods Are Game Changers. Set Up These 5 NOW.
Nate Herk shows the five Claude Code mods he installed first and how each one changes a daily workflow, a fast practical start on the new mod system.
Oct 2 · 11:19
VideoTheo - t3․ggVibe-coding
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Theo's hour-long walkthrough of what Claude subscribers should be doing with Claude Code right now, covering workflows, limits and setup.
Oct 2 · 1:06:36
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Oct 2 · 1:43
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A long-form conversation with Vercel's CEO on how he and the team actually build with coding agents day to day, from prompting to review to deploys.
Oct 2 · 1:37:49
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Build your own Mobile App with Codex GPT-6 Astra - Full iOS and Android Course
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Oct 1 · 2:35:50
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The BEST Jev Use Cases for AI Coding (Absolute Game Changers)
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Sep 30 · 17:39
VideoLatent SpaceVibe-coding
The Future of Claude Code: Mods, Mutable Software, & Multiplayer Agents — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar on Latent Space about Claude Code mods, mutable software and multiplayer agents, the clearest roadmap yet for where Claude Code is heading.
Sep 29 · 1:34:32
VideoJavaScript MasteryVibe-coding
Claude Code Full Course 2026 | How Senior Engineers Actually Build with AI
A full two-hour course on Claude Code as a senior engineer uses it: planning, CLAUDE.md, hooks, subagents, reviewing diffs and shipping a real app. The most current…
Sep 25 · 2:13:40
VideoOwain LewisVibe-coding
I Built an Agentic Software Factory with Codex and Claude Code
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Jul 25 · 20:49
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Claude Code for Beginners Tutorial [Full Course]
freeCodeCamp's four-hour beginner course. If you have never opened a terminal to build with AI, this gets you from install to a deployed project.
May 13 · 4:27:47
VideoBridgeMind HighlightsVibe-coding
How To Use Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor for Multi-Agent Vibe Coding
Which coding agent to use for which job, and how to run them together on one project without them fighting over the same files.
May 9 · 1:19:57
VideoRiley BrownVibe-coding
Vibe Coding for Beginners (Full Course 2026)
Prompt-to-app for non-engineers: Lovable and Cursor, how to describe what you want, how to recover when the agent breaks something, and when to bring in a real database.
May 7 · 55:25