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Google and Kaggle Are Running a Free 5-Day AI Agents Course — With Vibe Coding

Google's returning free AI Agents Intensive course goes June 15-19, 2026. Here's what's in it, who it's for, and how to sign up.

Published May 5, 2026 ·

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Google and Kaggle are running their AI Agents Intensive course again, this time with vibe coding built into the curriculum. The course runs June 15–19, 2026, it’s free, and the first version reached over 1.5 million learners. If you’ve been meaning to get more structured about how AI agents actually work — and how to build one without writing much code — this is the most credible free path to do that.

Here’s what you need to know.

What it actually covers

The course is five days, roughly two hours of content per day plus a hands-on lab. The structure:

Day 1: Agents and vibe coding. An introduction to what agents are (programs that take actions, not just generate text), and how vibe coding — using natural language to build software — fits into the agent paradigm. This is the clearest version of “what does all this actually mean” that a non-developer can access in a structured format.

Day 2: Agent tools and interoperability. How agents connect to external APIs, and how agents can talk to other agents. Relevant if you’re thinking about building workflows that span multiple tools — connecting your CRM to your support system to your analytics, for example.

Day 3: Context engineering. The layer above prompt engineering — how you structure what the agent knows before it acts. This is where most founders fail: they prompt well but don’t think about what context the model needs to do the job reliably.

Day 4: Agent quality and security. How to evaluate whether an agent is actually doing what you think it is, and how to catch the failure modes before customers do. Given the current state of vibe-coded security vulnerabilities, this day is worth attending if nothing else.

Day 5: From prototype to production. Cloud deployment, observability, and what changes when you move from “it works on my laptop” to “real users are using this.” For founders who’ve built something in Lovable or Replit and are wondering what comes next, this is the session.

Who should take it

This course is aimed at people who want to understand how AI agents work — not just use them passively. Google recommends some Python familiarity, which is fair: the hands-on labs involve looking at code and modifying it, even if you’re not writing it from scratch.

That said, the conceptual sessions are accessible without a developer background. If you’re a PM or founder who uses Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor daily and keeps hitting the ceiling of your understanding — why does the agent make the choices it makes, what’s context window management, why does adding tools make it slower — this course will fill in the conceptual gaps even if you skip the coding labs.

It’s not for someone who has never heard of AI and wants to build a website. It’s for someone who already uses AI tools and wants to understand them one level deeper.

The Google AI Studio connection

The vibe coding element of this course runs inside Google AI Studio, which Google launched as a full-stack vibe coding environment earlier this year. The course teaches you to use it to build agents through natural language — which is genuinely useful practice on a platform that’s improving quickly and is worth understanding alongside the tools you might already use.

If you’ve been curious about Google AI Studio as a tool for building in but haven’t committed time to exploring it, this course gives you a structured reason to try it in context.

How to sign up

Registration is free. You’ll need:

• A Kaggle account (free, requires phone verification)
• A Google AI Studio account (free)

Go to kaggle.com/competitions/5-day-ai-agents-intensive-vibecoding-course-with-google and register. Sessions are June 15–19, 2026. Content is recorded if you can’t attend live.

Is it worth five days?

For a founder or PM who works with AI tools daily: yes, if you can carve out the time. The course fills a specific gap that most tutorials don’t — it explains how agents actually work, not just how to prompt them. That knowledge compounds over time, particularly as agent-based workflows become more central to what vibe-coded tools do.

If your goal is to build a specific thing rather than develop general fluency, this is a lower priority. Go build the thing. But if you’re at a moment where the tools feel like black boxes and you’d like to make better decisions about what to build and how to structure it, five days of structured Google content is a strong investment.

The security day alone (Day 4) is worth attending if you’re shipping anything to real users.

The broader context

Google bringing vibe coding into a course aimed at 1.5 million learners is a signal worth reading. The Google AI Studio launch, the Kaggle partnership, the agent-focused curriculum — these are pieces of a deliberate strategy to become the platform founders and PMs reach for when they want to build with AI, not just talk to it.

For now, tools like Lovable and Bolt still have the better UX for non-technical builders. But Google is investing aggressively in making its toolchain the default for the next wave of builders — people who come in through education rather than Twitter. Watch what they ship in Q3 2026.

For now, the course is free, the content is structured, and June is far enough out to plan for it. Sign up.