Time-Series · 10 Lanes

How each tool evolved through the curriculum

DDS doesn't replace older classes. We add. Below: 10 horizontal lanes showing how each tool, platform, and class group has grown without a single paywall. Scroll right within a lane to walk from the earliest entry to the most recent.

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Milestones, computed from the class list

  1. #10 The Cursor Onramp First Cursor class, and class number 10
  2. #12 ChatGPT Foundations First OpenAI / ChatGPT class
  3. #8 The Claude Onramp First Claude class
  4. #9 Gemini CLI Foundations First Gemini class
  5. #11 Ollama for Windows First Ollama class
  6. #14 Shopify Liquid Foundations First Hydrogen & Shopify Dev class
  7. #13 The Sidekick Onramp First Shopify Sidekick class
  8. #50 One-Prompt App Library for Shopify Store Owners Class number 50
  9. #40 Trilogy 01: Sovereign Orchestrator Case Study Class number 40
  10. #20 Cursor 3 Masterclass Class number 20
  11. #30 NicheForge V3 Class number 30
  12. #1 What Is Vibe Coding First Vibe Academy class
  13. #6 Antigravity Onramp First Antigravity class
  14. #27 Sovereign RAG Masterclass First Frontier Systems class
  15. #60 Claude Fable 5 Masterclass Class number 60
  16. #70 Gemini 3.6 Flash Masterclass Class number 70
  17. #80 Your GPU or Nothing: The Ollama Gate Class number 80
  18. #90 Fable 5.1 Went 17 for 18. The Miss Was Mine: Claude Fable 5.1, Tested From the Outside Class number 90
  19. #99 Build Your Own Antigravity Plugin Newest class

Vibe Academy

The Academy's own meta-curriculum β€” philosophy and monthly drops.

13 classes
Q2 2026

What Is Vibe Coding

Vibe coding is building real software by describing what you want to an AI in plain language, then directing and veri...

Foundation #1
Q2 2026

Your First AI Environment

The architect's guide to choosing and installing your first AI coding environment in 2026.

Foundation #2
Q2 2026

Prompting as Specification

Prompts are not wishes.

Foundation #3
Q2 2026

Reading & Directing AI Code

AI code causes 1 in 5 breaches.

Foundation #4
Q2 2026

The Vibe Build Loop

The capstone of the DDS Vibe Academy Foundation track.

Foundation #5
Q3 2025

The Vibe Coder's Manifesto

The philosophical foundation of the Academy β€” what we build, why, and for whom.

Foundation #7
Q2 2026

VibeTube AI

The Best YouTube Automation Desktop App β€” V1.1.1 Β· 19 Outputs, Zero Subscriptions

Application #29
Q1 2026

Atelier OS

The $15.5M Neural Operating System built in 52 hours β€” multi-agent AI architecture case study.

Application #32
Q2 2026

Vibe Coder's Haven Series

Monthly Haven series β€” every new AI model, tool, and MCP release from April 2026.

Application #34
Q2 2026

The Architect's Workshop

Robert McCullock is a Boston-based AI systems architect and full-stack engineer.

Mastery #47
Q2 2026

Vibe Coder's Haven: March 2026

Monthly Haven series β€” every new AI model, tool, and MCP release that landed in March 2026.

Application #55
Q1 2026

Vibe Coder's Haven: February 2026

Monthly Haven series β€” every new AI model and tool for vibe coding that landed in February 2026.

Application #56
Q4 2026

AI Bug Fix: 74 of 75 Recorded Runs Passed Tests the Agent Never Saw

The six-step loop for an AI bug fix, taught from 75 recorded runs on five small Python repositories with one planted ...

Foundation #98

Antigravity

Google's agent-first IDE for vibe coders.

9 classes

Claude

Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent and the Claude model family.

14 classes
Q4 2025

The Claude Onramp

The definitive free Claude Code masterclass.

Foundation #8
Q2 2026

Claude Code Masterclass Part 1

The definitive free Claude Code masterclass.

Development #15
Q2 2026

Claude Code Masterclass Part 2

The production half of the Claude Code masterclass.

Development #16
Q2 2026

Claude Landing Pages

Complete masterclass for the current Claude product family.

Application #28
Q2 2026

MCP Server Forge

A Mastery-level build class for the Model Context Protocol.

Mastery #38
Q2 2026

Claude Opus 4.8 Masterclass

A vibe coder's guide to effort control, Dynamic Workflows, and the most honest Claude that's shipped yet.

Mastery #49
Q2 2026

Claude Cowork Masterclass

Claude Cowork masterclass: what it is after GA, how its two-environment architecture works, the tool-priority ladder,...

Mastery #51
Q1 2026

Vibe Code Masterclass 2026 (Renaissance Edition)

Free Vibe Code masterclass β€” Shopify Renaissance Edition. The Claude 4.5 era starter.

Foundation #57
Q2 2026

Claude Fable 5 Masterclass

A vibe coder's guide to Anthropic's first public Mythos-class model β€” effort control, 18 paste-ready prompts, long-ho...

Mastery #60
Q3 2026

Opus 5: The Effort Dial

Five effort levels, one prompt, measured. What max effort actually buys you - and the tasks where it buys nothing.

Mastery #79
Q3 2026

1,032 Words, Zero Lines of Code: Rebuilding a Live Shopify Store in Claude Cowork

A live Shopify store diagnosed, rebuilt, tested and promoted across 43 tickets in four days. The operator typed 1,032...

Mastery #84
Q3 2026

$25 In. Live in Sixty Seconds.: Building a Fully Automated Self-Service Directory

A stranger pays $25 and their listing is live in about a minute with nobody awake. The payment webhook and the signat...

Mastery #92
Q3 2026

You Can't Turn My Thinking Off: Claude Opus 5.5, Mastered

Claude Opus 5.5 explained by Claude Opus 5.5. Thinking is always on and effort is the only dial left, with the defaul...

Mastery #95
Q4 2026

24 of 25 at 42% of the Bill: Claude Sonnet 5.5, Measured Against Opus 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 explained by Claude Sonnet 5.5, then measured against Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5 on five small re...

Mastery #96

Gemini

Google's AI models β€” from CLI foundations to Flash speed engines.

10 classes
Q4 2025

Gemini CLI Foundations

Setup, free tier, the 1M context window, multi-modal patterns for product description workflows.

Foundation #9
Q1 2026

Gemini 3 Deep Think Patterns

Master Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview with real prompting examples, pro tips, and free tools.

Development #17
Q2 2026

Google I/O 2026: Complete AI Stack

Decoded build map of every Gemini model, every surface, every automation pattern from Google I/O 2026.

Application #35
Q2 2026

Gemini 3.1 Pro: The Pivot

Master Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview with real prompting examples, pro tips, and free tools.

Mastery #44
Q2 2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash Masterclass

A vibe coder's guide to Spark, Antigravity, and the 4x frontier model.

Mastery #48
Q2 2026

One-Prompt App Library 2.0

36 paste-ready Google AI Studio apps for Shopify, tiered Basic, Advanced, Master.

Application #59
Q3 2026

Gemini Omni Masterclass

Any-input-to-video and conversational editing β€” turn text, images, or audio into video, then refine it with natural-l...

Application #69
Q3 2026

Gemini 3.6 Flash Masterclass

The agentic vibe coder's speed engine β€” sub-400ms latency, 220 tokens/sec streaming, thinkingLevel API control, and 2...

Mastery #70
Q3 2026

The Model Wrote This Class: Gemini 3.7 Flash, Tested On Itself

Gemini 3.7 Flash researched, benchmarked and coded its own masterclass. Every figure re-measured against class 70's p...

Mastery #83
Q3 2026

The Model Got Smarter. Your Ceiling Didn't: Gemini 3.8 Flash, Measured

Gemini 3.8 Flash costs exactly what 3.7 costs and answers just as well - until a hard problem, where it spends up to ...

Mastery #89

Cursor

The AI-first IDE from Anysphere β€” background agents and Composer.

3 classes

Ollama

Run models locally. Full sovereignty over your inference stack.

4 classes

OpenAI / ChatGPT

OpenAI's GPT models and image generation pipeline.

4 classes

Shopify Sidekick

Shopify's native AI store assistant.

4 classes

Hydrogen & Shopify Dev

Shopify storefronts β€” Liquid foundations through Hydrogen headless.

4 classes

Frontier Systems

Multi-agent systems and autonomous architectures.

34 classes
Q2 2026

Sovereign RAG Masterclass

A Mastery-level build class for fully local retrieval-augmented generation.

Application #27
Q2 2026

NicheForge V3

24 source files.

Application #30
Q1 2026

AGI Nexus

v10.0 SINGULARITY β€” autonomous digital office technical whiteboard, $1M+ build.

Application #33
Q1 2026

Synthetic Director

v6.0 β€” LEVEL 4 AUTONOMOUS CREATIVE AGENT

Application #36
Q2 2026

Sovereign Orchestrator

Sovereign Orchestrator Pro β€” multi-model routing case study. The FinOps observability pattern.

Application #37
Q2 2026

SEO Magnet V2

This is the core class β€” the system used to code every other page in the Academy, documented in full and demonstrated...

Mastery #39
Q2 2026

Trilogy 01: Sovereign Orchestrator Case Study

Trilogy 01 β€” the original Sovereign AGI Suite case study. V5.0 hybrid pattern.

Mastery #40
Q2 2026

Trilogy 02: Synthetic Director Case Study

Trilogy 02 β€” autonomous creative agency. 75+ Background Scene presets, Imagen 4 + Veo 3.1 routing.

Mastery #41
Q2 2026

Trilogy 03: NicheForge Case Study

24 source files.

Mastery #42
Q2 2026

DVA Desktop Apps Portfolio

Forensic case study showcase of the DDS Vibe Academy commercial desktop applications.

Mastery #43
Q1 2026

The Sovereign AI Stack

Robert McCullock is a Boston-based AI systems architect and full-stack engineer.

Mastery #45
Q2 2026

Multi-Model Orchestration

Run Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3 Pro, OpenAI Codex, and local Ollama models in Google Antigravity using your existing su...

Mastery #46
Q2 2026

AI Cost Engineering Masterclass

Cut your LLM bill 60-95% with batch routing, prompt caching, model tiering, and the FinOps observability blueprint.

Mastery #52
Q2 2026

Image Gen Routing Masterclass

Multi-model AI image generation routing across GPT Image 2, Imagen 4, Midjourney, and Nano Banana Pro.

Application #53
Q2 2026

Video Routing Masterclass

Multi-model AI video routing β€” the AGI-CORE-Pro pattern. Veo 3.1, Runway, Pika, Sora, and the orchestration ladder.

Application #54
Q1 2026

How I Built My Shopify Store with Claude AI

The 2025 journey β€” building an entire Shopify storefront with Claude AI as the architectural collaborator.

Application #58
Q2 2026

VEED Automation Masterclass

Build a scheduled AI agent that drives VEED.ai to ship a daily branded YouTube Short β€” Gemini hook card, ffmpeg compo...

Mastery #62
Q2 2026

Sovereign Orchestrator Pro V6.0

A Mastery-level teardown of a solo-built, 173-file, 38k-LOC autonomous marketing engine β€” the orchestration model, mu...

Mastery #63
Q2 2026

Spark vs Cowork

A head-to-head β€” Google Gemini Spark vs Claude Cowork for running a content channel: where each wins, where each brea...

Application #65
Q2 2026

Cowork Production Stack

What one operator actually runs on Claude Cowork β€” standing automation systems, four-brain orchestration over Claude ...

Mastery #66
Q3 2026

Prototype to Published: AAA Browser Game

How a browser RPG that didn't compile β€” and shipped its own API key β€” became a tested, published AAA game. The 2026 s...

Application #68
Q3 2026

Evals & Testing AI Output

Golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, Promptfoo and DeepEval, and CI gates that block a merge when quality regresses.

Development #71
Q3 2026

Security of AI-Generated Code

Threat-model the code you did not write: secrets, injection, dependency risk, and the scans that catch it before rele...

Development #72
Q3 2026

Git + AI Workflows

Version control as the safety net for agent-written code: clean history, reviewable slices, and getting back to a kno...

Development #73
Q3 2026

Deployment & CI/CD for AI-Built Code

The ship gate: GitHub Actions, branch protection, staged rollout, secrets management, and rollback for code you did n...

Development #74
Q3 2026

You Cannot Debug What You Cannot See

Five instruments that proved a real-time 3D build wrong on Shopify before shipping. Filmstrip recorder, SDF atlas, br...

Mastery #81
Q3 2026

Ten Gates or It Doesn't Post: The Autonomous Engagement Engine

Ten fail-closed checks between an AI draft and a live reply. Gemini-to-Ollama failover, offscreen Chrome on port 9222...

Mastery #82
Q3 2026

1 of 10 Alone, 8 of 8 With a Team: Running Nine AI Agents on One Codebase

The same programme returned 1 of 10 tickets from one flat session and 8 of 8 from a manager with nine specialists. Wo...

Mastery #85
Q3 2026

Everyone's Retro 3D Is a PlayStation: 19 Techniques That Actually Make an N64 Game

Vertex snapping is the wrong console. The complete technique-by-technique teardown of Volthaven 64 β€” resolution, colo...

Mastery #86
Q3 2026

We Built 100 Levels in 55 Hours: What Shipping a Game With an AI Agent Actually Takes

Dragonfly Crush 2 went from a forked repo to 100 tuned levels in 55 hours and 24 minutes, and the live site crashed o...

Mastery #87
Q3 2026

46 Documents. One Was Stale in 32 Minutes: Auditing a Codebase Against Its Own Paperwork

Ashaveth ships 46 markdown documents and 441,416 bytes of written record, better than most commercial projects. Measu...

Mastery #88
Q3 2026

Fable 5.1 Went 17 for 18. The Miss Was Mine: Claude Fable 5.1, Tested From the Outside

Claude Fable 5.1 tested live in fresh claude.ai chats and graded by execution against vectors locked before sending: ...

Mastery #90
Q3 2026

651 Assertions. A Photograph Won.: Publishing Claims That Survive Being Checked

How to publish numbers about yourself that hold up when someone checks them. Attach the evidence to the claim so the ...

Mastery #93
Q3 2026

Let the Model Write Liquid, Never Let It Publish: Gating AI-Generated Shopify Code

Put the model on one side of a wall and deterministic code on the other. Tier your rules by what a violation costs, i...

Mastery #94
Five Days A Week

Vibe Code Academy Blog

The sister blog at /blogs/vibe-code-academy posts Monday through Friday. Below: every recent post grouped by week so you can see the rhythm. The current week sits at the top. Zero paywalls.