The Vibe Lab
An interactive vibe-coding session
Bring a laptop and leave with a repeatable process. In this hands-on session you’ll take a messy year of IT service tickets and use AI to review it, catch the errors hiding in it, and turn the whole thing into a recipe you can run again next month on your own data. No coding experience required — and no prior session required either.
Agenda
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01Introductions & Polling Questions
Meet the room — who’s back from June, who’s new — and find out where everyone is on their AI journey.
~15 min- Name, company, role, and current AI experience level
- Which tools you’re using — Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, or something else
- What you’ve put AI to work on since we last met, and what’s still tripping you up
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02Lab Overview
A quick tour of this session’s dataset, the two paths you can choose from, and getting everyone set up before we start.
~10 min- Pick your track: Operations Support or Reporting & Insight
- Open the data files emailed to you ahead of the session
- Set up a folder so today’s work is reusable after you leave
- No AI account yet? We’ll get you on a free plan in about two minutes
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03Getting Repeatable Results
The habits that separate a lucky answer from a result you can count on every time — treat AI like a brilliant new teammate with zero context, and do the onboarding.
~20 min- Five habits: give it a role and a goal, be specific, ground it in your data, review before you act, capture what worked
- The four-step loop that works on almost any task
- Where this leads: a one-off chat → a reusable recipe → a saved skill
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04Interactive Lab
Your turn. A new dataset, the same four-step loop — twelve months and 161 IT service tickets, some of them miscoded, mis-billed, or carrying impossible dates. On purpose.
~40 min- Prompt the AI to find what’s wrong, then either clean it up or report on it
- Discover the errors you’d never catch by scrolling — the ones that only show up when you compare one column against another
- Capture the process as a document you can reuse in a fresh chat anytime
- Group debrief: what your AI caught, what it missed, and where you’d run this loop at work
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STEP 1ReviewLook, don’t touch. What do you see?
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STEP 2ValidateCheck the rules; flag what’s wrong.
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STEP 3ActClean it, summarize it, or chart it.
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STEP 4CaptureWrite down the process to reuse.
Choose Your Track
Operations Support
Produce a cleaned copy of the ticket log with flags and suggested fixes — marked for human approval, never silently overwritten.
Reporting & Insight
Build charts of billed revenue by service type and monthly ticket volume, then see exactly how the uncaught errors would have distorted them.
What to Bring
- A laptop — this is hands-on, not a demo you watch
- An AI account. Our demo runs in Claude, but every prompt works in ChatGPT or Grok too. Don’t have one? Arrive a few minutes early and we’ll set you up free, no credit card.
- A real work problem in the back of your mind — you’ll want somewhere to point this loop on Monday
New to the Vibe Lab? You’re in the right place. Session 2 uses a fresh dataset and stands on its own — returning attendees are repeating the loop on new data, which is exactly the point. We keep the group small so the lab stays hands-on.
