Week 3
Everyone demos,
then the tools.
Learn, Vibe, Build
Demos first.
Why we demo.
This class is about building.
Building means sharing it and taking feedback.
Sharing is how you learn. You get witnessed.
Every week, everyone shares. No build? Share anyway.
Four minutes each.
What’s new this week
Sept 3: a whole fly brain, mapped. 166,700 neurons, 125 million synapses.
The internet ran it: Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, Bad Apple.
Real wiring, toy neurons, hand-picked inputs and outputs. Not a fly playing games.
The serious result: the wiring alone predicts behavior. No training.
The RL link: use the wiring as the shape of a learner, then let it learn.
It is moving fast. Stay balanced.
Every demo tonight is a sign of how fast this is moving.
Anxiety about the pace makes it harder to navigate.
Be aware of the rate of change. Do not clench around it.
Your relationship with technology matters more than ever.
howtounclench.com — Jonny Miller. Worth reading, and worth noticing: someone built it.
A couple of things I built
Aaron fills this live
Three things vary.
Who made the brain
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI. Plus open-weight models like Qwen and gpt-oss that anyone can download.
What you sit in
A chat window, a code editor, an agent in your terminal, or a builder in a browser tab.
Whose machine
Someone else’s cloud, or your own laptop.
Almost every tool you have heard of is one choice on each of these three.
Three good ones.
Five more that cost nothing.
Not free this term.
Nothing in this class requires you to pay for a tool.
Use three different tools.
Start early. Free tiers cap you per day, so three tools does not fit in one night.
This is a suggestion, not a requirement. Show your learning about the tools another way if you’d rather. Experimentation and diversity are the point.
Three questions.
Work time.
Get set up with at least one new tool tonight.
cu.learnvibe.build/studio/tools.html
The how-to for each one is there.