VAIBE_Coding

V(AI)BE Coding for Data Science

Instructor: Dr. Tue Vu (tuev@smu.edu)

Vibe Coding

• AI-assisted software development technique that helps user to code from prompt
• Introduced by Andrej Karpathy in 02/2025, a Director of AI and Autopilot vision at Tesla, also cofounder of AI research group at OpenAI

Goal:

• Use Vibe Coding to do an end-2-end Data Science workflow using AI
• Tools: VSCode. Download free version here: [https://code.visualstudio.com]

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1. Download and setup (3 min):

• Download and setup Miniconda for your system (Window/MacOS/Linux): https://www.anaconda.com/download/success#download
• Download and install VSCode for your system (Window/MacOS/Linux): [https://code.visualstudio.com]
• Create Github account and register with FREE Github copilot pro [https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/manage-your-account/get-free-access-to-copilot-pro]
  • With Github copilot pro, you can have access to best/latest LLMs for vibe coding
  • This takes 72 hours to activate, in the mean time you can use free Github version for VSCode login
• Initialize Miniconda: from Window VSCode Powershell: (assume Miniconda installed to C:\ProgramData\miniconda3)

$ C:\ProgramData\miniconda3\Scripts\conda.exe init powershell

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2. Introduce VSCode Integrated Development Environment (IDE) GUI (2 min)

• File/Open Folder, default to Documents
• Open Terminal

• In the terminal, Clone the material from github:

$ git clone https://github.com/vuminhtue/VAIBE_Coding.git
$ cd VAIBE_Coding

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3. Install conda environment (3 min)

• In terminal:

$ conda create -n ds1 python=3.10 -y
$ conda activate ds1
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

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4. Run the Prompt (5 min)

• In VSCode, open Folder VAIBE_Coding that you just clone and start VAIBE Coding using given csv file
• Use the AmesHousing.csv as the tabular data used for this Data Science workflow
• Click on Prompt.txt and start chatting, for example, if you want to have a better prompt before apply Vibe coding:

From the prompt, create a comprehensive prompt for me

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5. Create AI report (2 min)

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• The prompt also has option to create AI report in Latex format.
• The report in separate chapters are saved in report folder
• Once the main.tex created, we can convert that to pdf using pdflatex:

$ pdflatex report/main.tex

Note: if you do not have pdflatex installed, you can do that for your system:

• Window: Download the installer from miktex.org/download
• MacOS: Download the MacTeX.pkg installer from tug.org/mactex

Recording:

• The recording below is for Cursor, it is the same as using VSCode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVye4ZYCblM