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Akshat Jain
Organiser
AI researcher, Perplexity AI Fellow and Global Shaper. Builds products end-to-end with coding agents and shares what he learns in the open.
Connect on LinkedInOslo · Code. Chill. Learn.
No one codes alone.
Free, drop-in AI coding sessions in Oslo. Bring a laptop and an idea. Beginners genuinely welcome.
Next upThursday 2 July 2026·16:00–18:00·Spaces Stortorvet
The next session
Vibe Coding Drop-In
Bring your laptop and whatever you're building. Work on your own thing, pair up with someone, ask the question you've been too shy to ask. Beginners genuinely welcome.
- Date
- Thursday 2 July
- Time
- 16:00–18:00
- Cost
- Free
- Who
- Everyone
Bring
A laptop, an idea if you have one, and a willingness to vibe. That is the whole list.
Save your spot
Free, but RSVP helps us bring enough chairs and good energy.
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How it works
A room, some laptops, and zero gatekeeping.
No pressure. No “you need 5 years of React experience to sit here” energy. Just people building things with AI and helping each other along the way.
- 01
Show up
Drop in any time during the session. No ticket needed. An RSVP just helps us set out enough chairs.
- 02
Bring what you've got
A laptop and an idea, a half-broken project, or pure curiosity. You do not need to be an expert. You just need to show up.
- 03
Build, break, fix
Work on your own thing, pair up, or join someone else's. We compare tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Lovable and actually ship.
- 04
Leave with something
A deployed app, a new friend, or a question finally answered. Usually all three.
This is for you if you are
- Total beginners
- Experienced developers
- Designers
- Product people
- Students
- The AI-curious
What we believe
The hard part was never the code. It was doing it alone.
Anyone can build now.
The tools got good. What is usually missing is not talent. It is a room, a few hours, and some company.
Curiosity is the only requirement.
Beginners sit next to people who ship for a living. Nobody checks your CV at the door.
Break things in the open.
Bring the half-finished and the half-broken. Building with AI is planning, verifying and iterating, out loud, together.
No one should feel lonely while coding.
That is the whole reason this exists. You should not sit on an idea because you do not know where to start.
Where we've been
A few sessions in, and growing.
It started in a public library with two people comparing tools. We are trying to make the drop-ins a weekly thing.
Vibe Coding Drop-In
Saturday 20 June 2026Oslo
Small room, big energy. Exactly the point.
Session 2: Building products the agentic way
Saturday 6 June 2026Campus G12 · Oslo
Bring an idea, a project, a half-broken app, or just curiosity. That was the whole brief, and the room delivered.
Vibe Code & Chill
Monday 25 May 2026Deichman Nydalen · Oslo
Hosted in the public library. Open access, the way it should be.
The first session
May 2026Oslo
The interesting part wasn't picking a winner. It was watching building-with-AI become about planning, verifying and iterating rather than typing every line.
Articles
We don't just hang out. We write it down.
Our talks, expanded into proper essays. Worth reading even if you never make it to a Thursday.
8 min readAkshat Jain
What cheap AI does to the developer's job
Two old ideas, one from AI research and one from economics, explain why writing code got cheap and what that means for someone learning to build today.
Read the article8 min readAkshat Jain
I spent $25,507 on AI coding agents in twelve weeks
A twelve-week receipt from real agentic engineering, and what the numbers actually mean for your own spend.
Read the articleFrom the community
Straight from LinkedIn.
Recaps, posters and the occasional honest breakdown. Follow along and you will always know where the next session is.
“Bring an idea. Bring a project. Bring a half-broken app. Bring curiosity. You don't need to be an expert. You just need to show up. Because honestly, no one should feel lonely while coding.”
“Cheap code moves the work up the stack, toward specifying, reviewing and judging. ATMs did it to tellers. Spreadsheets did it to accountants. Compilers did it to programmers. Thanks to everyone who came.”
“Take advantage of the tokens the labs are offering. Think of this as your seed round. Use it to build, experiment and learn before the cost of acquiring the same knowledge becomes much higher.”
“We ran our first AI Vibes session and honestly, it was a blast. Come with an idea, a messy project, a random question, or just curiosity. No one should code alone or sit on an idea because they do not know where to start.”
Start anywhere
A free on-ramp, even if Thursday is far away.
The resources we actually point newcomers to. What vibe coding is, the tools, free courses from zero, and why we think AI should reach everyone.
New to all this?
Getting started with vibe coding
The whole thing from zero, in one read. Never written a line of code? Start here and ship something tonight.
Ready for the deep end?
Frontier reading
The papers that built modern AI, curated from Stanford's CS 153, each with a plain-English TL;DR.
AttentionGPT-3Scaling LawsChinchillaDiffusionRLHF
Or browse by topic
Start here
What “vibe coding” actually means, from the people who named it.
3 links →The tools we use
You only need one to start. Pick whatever gets you building tonight.
5 links →Free ways to go from zero
No prior coding needed. These are the on-ramps we point beginners to.
3 links →When you want to go deeper
For when the vibes meet a real codebase and you want to understand what is happening.
3 links →Go to the frontier
Curated from Stanford's CS 153: Frontier Systems. This is the deep end, research papers, and you do not need any of it to start. But if you want to understand where all of this came from, here is the canon.
11 links →From the guest lectures
CS 153 puts you in the room with the people building the frontier. Here is some of the work behind them: generative images, video, and voice.
5 links →AI for everyone
Why we run this for free and in the open. Cheap, safe access to AI should not be a privilege.
2 links →Other places to learn in Oslo
We are not the only room in town, and that is a good thing. Go to these too.
3 links →Who runs this
Two people who think this should exist.
No company behind it, no sponsor to please. Just two builders in Oslo who got tired of coding alone and decided to fix it.
HT
Harsh Trivedi
Organiser
Data scientist who mapped 5.9 million schools worldwide for social good. Believes information, and AI, should reach everyone.
Connect on LinkedInWhy it's free
AI for everyone. We mean it.
Cheap, safe access to AI should not be a privilege. We run this as a nonprofit, in the open, because the most powerful tools in a generation are landing right now, and whether they reach everyone is partly a question of who gets shown the door in.
So we keep the door open. That is the whole idea.
Free, always
No ticket, no fee, no upsell. The only currency at the door is curiosity.
Open in public
We share the decks, the recaps and the resources. Take them, use them, pass them on.
For everyone
Students, switchers, the self-taught. The gap between people who can build with AI and people who can't is widening. A free Thursday is a small way to close it.
Bring a spark. Leave with something you built.
Next session: Thursday 2 July 2026, 16:00–18:00 at Spaces Stortorvet. No experience required. No one codes alone.