Vibe Coding for Business Leaders
From business problem to working AI product · MBA USM elective · 2 SCT-Chile · taught in English
Course syllabus
Description, competencies CE1–CE4 and CGT1–CGT3, learning outcomes, five content units, methodology, weighted assessment and bibliography.
Read the syllabus → Plan 5 sessions · 4 hours eachSession plan
Build goal, pre-work, framework, guided build and critique for each session, with the milestones that carry one product from brief to Demo Day.
See the sessions → Classes 5 interactive pages · simulators · labsClass material
Each session as a self-teaching page: guiding questions, simulators, practice questions, the build lab with prompts to adapt, and a checklist that remembers your progress.
Go to the classes → Download .docx · Programa de AsignaturaWord version
The syllabus filled into the official USM MBA Programa de Asignatura template, ready for departmental review.
Download →The course in one paragraph
Vibe coding, building software by describing intent to an AI and iterating on what it produces, has collapsed the cost of a working prototype from weeks of engineering to hours of a manager’s time. This elective puts that capability in the hands of MBA students with no programming background. Over five 4-hour workshops, teams take one real problem from their own organizations to a deployed web application with an integrated language-model capability, evaluate the security, privacy, cost and maintainability risks of what they built, decide between build, buy and hand-off, and present a working product and business case to a panel on Demo Day.
Who it is for
MBA students and managers who need to test ideas, specify what they need from technology teams, and judge AI-built software, without becoming programmers. No coding experience is required or assumed.
What students leave with
- A deployed, working AI-powered application built for a problem they chose.
- A tested test set and a risk memo for that application.
- A build / buy / vibe decision framework they have applied once.
- A first-hand understanding of what has changed in the economics of building software, and of what remains a defensible advantage.
At a glance
| Credits | 2 SCT-Chile (20 contact hours + 25 autonomous = 45 hours) |
| Format | 5 workshop sessions of 4 hours, teams of 2 to 3 |
| Language | English (deliverables in English or Spanish) |
| Assessment | 5 weighted components, no final exam, pass at 55/100 |
| Competencies | CE1, CE2, CE4 (CE3 secondary); CGT1, CGT2, CGT3 |
| Instructor | Sebastián Azócar M. · hizocar@gmail.com |