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You don't learn AI. You become the architect.

The DDS Vibe Academy is a free, 66-class curriculum of AI coding classes. No paywalls. No third-party trackers. We do not monetize your data.

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Transmission 2026-06-30 / 11:21 UTC

Build Manifest

This page is a Vibe Coding artifact.

Architected by Robert McCullock. Built by AI agents. Zero lines of code typed by hand. Zero files uploaded manually. Zero saves to the storefront by a human. Zero third-party tracking pixels.

Claude Opus 4.7 Authored

Vendor Anthropic

Role Code Author

Output

14 Liquid sections, 1 JSON template, ~7,000 lines, ~640 KB

Google Antigravity Deployed

Vendor Google · agent model: Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic)

Role Deploy Executor

Output

15 file uploads to Shopify via MCP, 3 schema corrections applied at deploy time, 3 deploy cycles (initial + audit patch)

Cowork Audited

Vendor Anthropic

Role QA Auditor

Output

Autonomous browser audit, 55 internal links verified, 30 broken URLs identified, sticky-nav z-index bug diagnosed

Shopify MCP Connected

Vendor Shopify

Role Write Channel

Output

All theme asset writes routed through the Shopify MCP (sections/, templates/, assets/)

Architect

Robert McCullock

Founder & Architect-CEO, Design Delight Studio

“I did not write a line of this. I designed the constraints. The agents did the rest. This is what Vibe Coding looks like in production.”

> theme.push --target=atelier-2-1-1-8-20-25 --role=main
  15 files queued
  ku265s-dh.myshopify.com authenticated via MCP
  sections/dva-academy-*.liquid              14 PASS
  templates/page.dds-vibe-academy.json        1 PASS
  assets/dds-vibe-academy-og-v2.jpg           1 PASS
> deploy complete · 0 human keystrokes in build pipeline
> methodology: DDS Vibe Coding · 5 pillars · constraint-first

Working Theory

The Vibe Coder's Manifesto

Seven working principles behind the DDS Vibe Academy. None of them are clever. All of them are earned. They sit underneath every class on the hub — read one, leave through any link.

Principle 01

You don't learn AI. You become the architect.

The class names lie a little. Nobody finishes a Claude Code masterclass and "knows Claude." What happens is smaller and bigger: you stop renting cognition and start architecting it. You decide what the system should do. The model figures out how.

This is the only useful skill in 2026. It does not have a certificate. It is not measured in tokens. It looks like a person who can read a stack of model release notes, design a workflow, and ship the workflow by Friday.

See the 8 lanes evolving

The class is not about Claude. The class is about you, working with Claude.

Principle 02

We add. We don't replace.

The Cursor onramp from October 2025 still ships in this academy alongside the Cursor 3 Masterclass from May 2026. The old class isn't wrong. It's the soil the new one grew from.

Every new version of every tool spawns a new class. The old class stays where it is, dated, in context. You can read them in order and watch the territory move under your feet. That's the point.

Walk all 66 classes in the Curriculum

Principle 03

Sovereignty over convenience.

If a workflow only works because someone else's API key works, that workflow is rented. The Sovereign Stack lane exists because at some point the bill comes due, the model gets deprecated, the policy changes, or the inference provider goes down for 14 hours on a Tuesday.

Local first when you can. Hybrid when you can't. Cloud last and only with a wallet you can close. The aim is not to be cheap. The aim is to be structurally uninterruptable.

Filter the archive by "Sovereign Stack"

A workflow that depends on someone else's uptime is not a workflow. It is a hope.

Principle 04

Ship the thing. Not the deck about the thing.

Every Mastery-stage class on this hub ends in a forensic record of what got built. Not a roadmap. Not a slide. A live URL with the model's exact word choices, the cost math, the failure modes, and the time it took.

This is the part nobody else publishes. Decks compress the work into a story that flatters the storyteller. The forensic record is the opposite. It shows where the thing broke, how the thing was held together, and what the thing actually does in production. That's the only honest deliverable.

Read the latest forensic record

Principle 05

The classroom is free. The work is yours.

Every class on this hub stays free, forever. There is no paywall, no membership, no certificate. The academy exists because the alternative — being the only solo founder in your industry with this material — is lonelier than running it as a one-person publishing house.

If a class helps you ship one thing, you owe nothing. If a class helps you build a business, send a customer to Design Delight Studio at some point. The trade is fair. The class is the trade.

Visit Design Delight Studio

If you can't show the receipts, you didn't ship. You presented.

Principle 06

This page is the proof.

You're reading a working Vibe Coding artifact right now. Scroll up. The Build Manifest section between the hero and the tab navigation is a deployment receipt. It names every AI agent that touched this page, what each one did, and how many lines of code the human wrote: zero.

Claude Opus 4.7 authored every Liquid section. Google Antigravity deployed every file to Shopify through the MCP. Cowork ran an autonomous browser audit that found 30 broken URLs and a z-index collision. The architect defined the constraints. The agents did the implementation. That's not a pitch. That's the build log sitting three scroll-lengths above this paragraph.

This is Principle 04 applied to itself. The page you're reading is the forensic record of how the page you're reading was built. No deck. No slide. The receipts.

Principle 07

Radical transparency.

We do not monetize your attention. We do not sell your data. Because this page is hosted on Shopify, the server logs basic visitor counts. But we run zero third-party tracking pixels here — no GA4, no Meta pixel, no retargeting ads.

The web was built to share information, not to harvest users. This academy is a sanctuary from surveillance capitalism. We publish the work; you read it. That's the whole transaction.

Where To Go Next

Pick a doorway

Latest Drops

What's New

The activity feed. Every class shipped this week with date stamps.

Full Map

Curriculum

All 66 classes on the curriculum grid. Four stages from Foundation to Mastery.

Growth Story

Evolution

Eight tool lanes from Q4 2025 to today. See how each tool got covered.

Blog Feed

Sister blog at /blogs/vibe-code-academy. Monday-to-Friday cadence.

Toolbox

Useful Links

113 verified primary sources across 13 categories. Every IDE, every API.

15 Real Questions

Questions and answers

The questions that arrive in DMs and inbox replies. Answered directly. No marketing copy.

15 of 15 questions shown

Is the DDS Vibe Academy actually free?

Yes. Every class, every masterclass, every case study, every blog post stays free forever. No paywall, no membership tier, no certificate purchase, no upsell. The academy exists as a publishing house. The classes are the publishing.

Do I need to buy anything from Design Delight Studio to access the classes?

No. Zero purchase required. The classes don't reference DDS products, the URLs aren't gated by any cookie or login. Read whatever you want, whenever you want.

What experience do I need before starting?

The Foundation stage assumes you can install a desktop app and follow command-line steps. Development stage assumes you've completed at least one Foundation onramp. Application stage assumes you're shipping things, not just experimenting. Mastery stage is for solo founders and senior engineers running their own AI infrastructure.

How often does new material ship?

The sister blog at /blogs/vibe-code-academy posts Monday through Friday. New academy classes ship roughly weekly. Monthly Haven recap classes ship the 15th of each month. Mastery-stage case studies ship when the underlying system reaches a shippable state.

Why are older classes still on the site if newer versions exist?

Time-series learning. Each class is dated and stays in its era. The Cursor 2.0 onramp from October 2025 stays alongside the Cursor 3 Masterclass from May 2026. You can read them in chronological order to see how the field moved.

Who is Robert McCullock?

Founder of Design Delight Studio in Boston. Solo founder. Architect-CEO. Builds the DDS Sovereign AGI Suite and writes this academy as the publishing arm of that work.

Is this content available on YouTube or as a course platform?

No. The academy is published as web pages on ddsboston.com. No Udemy, no Teachable, no YouTube channel. Live-text on the open web with permanent URLs you can bookmark, share, and reference.

Can I share these classes with my team?

Yes. Share the URLs freely. The classes are written for solo founders and small teams. There is no rights-managed content, no DRM, no per-seat licensing.

I have a tool you should cover. How do I suggest it?

Email Robert@ddsboston.com with a short description and the canonical URL. The Useful Links tab is curated based on tools that actually appear in shipped classes, so a tool gets covered when it earns its way into a class.

Do the classes work if I'm not on Shopify?

Most do. The Shopify-specific classes (Liquid Foundations, Hydrogen Storefront, SEO Magnet System) require a Shopify store. Every other class — Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Ollama, the case studies — is platform-agnostic.

What's the difference between a masterclass and a case study?

A masterclass teaches a tool. A case study documents a system that was built using multiple tools. Masterclasses live in the Development stage. Case studies live in the Mastery stage and are forensic records of shipped infrastructure.

Why oklch colors instead of hex?

oklch() is the perceptually uniform color space that became baseline browser support in 2024. The DDS palette is designed in oklch for predictable color-mix() interpolation across tints and shades. Every browser shipping in May 2026 supports it natively.

Will this site stay online if Design Delight Studio shuts down?

The academy lives on ddsboston.com. If the storefront goes inactive, the academy URLs would too. The classes are also archived on Internet Archive at archive.org for permanent reference. Sovereign Stack principles apply to the publisher too.

Can I hire Robert McCullock to build something for me?

Email Robert@ddsboston.com with the project scope. Active engagements are limited. The academy is the public output. Private work happens on a case-by-case basis when there's mutual fit.

Do you track my data or monetize my visits?

No. We make exactly $0 from this page. We run zero third-party tracking pixels (no Facebook, no Google Analytics). Because the site is hosted on Shopify, the platform logs basic anonymous visitor counts, but your data is never harvested or sold for retargeting. This academy is built in the spirit of the first internet.

About the Academy

Free forever.
No exceptions.

The DDS Vibe Academy is a free, 66-class AI coding curriculum covering Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Gemini, Cursor, Ollama, and more. The curriculum is free to access; the page itself is AI-coded with production-grade models including Claude Opus 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 on Claude Max, and Gemini Pro 3.1 on Google Ultra. No paywall, no signup, no tracking, no certificate. Updated Monday through Friday.

$0 Forever

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0 Paywalls

What Is the Academy

Built in the spirit of the first internet

The DDS Vibe Academy is a free AI coding curriculum published by Robert McCullock, founder of Design Delight Studio in Boston, Massachusetts. It maps the full territory of vibe coding from first prompt to sovereign multi-agent stack.

66 classes across 10 tool lanes and 4 curriculum stages. Every class is a full-length masterclass, not a tutorial clip. Every primary source is linked. Every tool is named. No affiliate links. No marketing pages. No third-party analytics.

The academy hub page itself was built entirely by AI agents using paid production tooling. Claude Opus 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 on Claude Max authored every Liquid section. Google Antigravity and Gemini Pro 3.1 on Google Ultra deployed every file through the Shopify MCP protocol. Claude Cowork ran autonomous browser audits. Zero lines of human-written code. Zero files uploaded manually.

66 Classes

10 Tool Lanes

113 Curated Links

4 Stages

0 Lines Human Code

M-F Update Cadence

The Curriculum

4 stages, 66 classes, completely free

Foundation

16 classes

Development

12 classes

Application

18 classes

Mastery

17 classes

From first prompt to sovereign stack. Explore the full curriculum →

How It's Made

The AI-native build chain

Architect Robert McCullock

Author Claude Max

Deploy Antigravity

Audit Cowork

Live Shopify MCP

0 lines of human-written code · 0 human keystrokes · 0 manual uploads

The Architect

Robert McCullock

Founder & Architect-CEO, Design Delight Studio

Robert is a Boston-based AI systems architect and the solo founder of Design Delight Studio, a sustainable streetwear brand. He built the DDS Vibe Academy as a free publishing arm of his work rebuilding business infrastructure with AI agents. He architects multi-agent AI systems and publishes forensic records of what gets built.

Robert's production stack spans Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Gemini, Cursor, Ollama, and the Shopify MCP protocol. The Academy documents his actual build process, not theoretical workflows. Every class is a record of real production decisions.

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The DDS Vibe Academy is a free, 66-class curriculum on AI coding published by Robert McCullock, founder of Design Delight Studio in Boston. Covering Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Gemini, Cursor, Ollama, and more. Built in the spirit of the first internet with zero third-party tracking and zero monetization. No paywall, no signup, no certificate. Updated Monday through Friday.

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The DDS Vibe Academy is a free, 66-class curriculum on AI coding published by Robert McCullock, founder and Architect-CEO of Design Delight Studio in Boston, Massachusetts. The academy covers Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Cursor, Shopify Sidekick, OpenAI GPT Image 2, Ollama, Hydrogen 2026, and AI Cost Engineering across four curriculum stages: Foundation, Development, Application, and Mastery.

The academy hub itself was built entirely by AI agents using paid production tooling — Claude Opus 4.6, 4.7, and 4.8 on Claude Max authored every Liquid section, Google Antigravity and Gemini Pro 3.1 on Google Ultra deployed every file through the Shopify MCP protocol, and Cowork ran autonomous browser audits. Zero lines of human-written code. Every class is free forever. Built in the spirit of the first internet with zero third-party tracking and zero monetization. No paywall, no signup, no certificate.

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Academy Hub Sister Blog Design Delight Studio Store Robert McCullock Portfolio Full Curriculum 113 Verified Tools

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Free, ad-free, 66-class AI coding curriculum published from Boston by Robert McCullock, solo founder of Design Delight Studio. Updates Monday–Friday. No paywall, no signup, no certificate. Built in the spirit of the first internet.

55 Unique Class URLs · Full Index

Every class in the curriculum

The complete Academy class index. Each link below is a direct path to a free, full-length class. Grouped by stage. One click to any of the 55 unique pages.

Total · 55 unique class URLs · Back to the curriculum atlas

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Your First AI Environment

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NicheForge Case Study (Trilogy 03)

Cursor Masterclass

ChatGPT Images 2 Masterclass

Synthetic Director Case Study (Trilogy 02)

Sovereign Orchestrator Case Study (Trilogy 01)

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Foundation

Development

Application

Mastery

Foundation

What Is Vibe Coding

Your First AI Environment

Prompting as Specification

Reading & Directing AI Code

The Vibe Build Loop

Antigravity Onramp

The Vibe Coder's Manifesto

The Claude Onramp

Gemini CLI Foundations

The Cursor Onramp

Ollama for Windows

ChatGPT Foundations

The Sidekick Onramp

Shopify Liquid Foundations

One-Prompt App Library for Shopify Store Owners

Vibe Code Masterclass 2026 (Renaissance Edition)

Development

Claude Code Masterclass Part 1

Claude Code Masterclass Part 2

Gemini 3 Deep Think Patterns

Antigravity First Light

Antigravity In Production

Cursor 3 Masterclass

Sidekick Power Patterns

Ollama Cloud Routing

Antigravity 2.0 Masterclass

ChatGPT Images 1 Masterclass

ChatGPT Images 2 Masterclass

Hydrogen Storefront Build

Application

Sovereign RAG Masterclass

Claude Landing Pages

VibeTube AI

NicheForge V3

Homepage Upgrade Masterclass

Atelier OS

AGI Nexus

Vibe Coder's Haven Series

Google I/O 2026: Complete AI Stack

Synthetic Director

Sovereign Orchestrator

Image Gen Routing Masterclass

Video Routing Masterclass

Vibe Coder's Haven: March 2026

Vibe Coder's Haven: February 2026