Google and Kaggle Are Bringing Back Their Free AI Agents Course — With a Vibe Coding Twist

Google and Kaggle are bringing back their free five-day AI Agents Intensive Course, and this year they’re leaning hard into vibe coding. The course runs June 15-19, 2026, and registration opened today.

If you missed the first run last November, that thing reached over 1.5 million learners. Not bad for a free online course. This time around, they’ve updated the content, lined up new speakers, and added a hands-on capstone project. Still free, still five days.

What’s vibe coding? It’s exactly what it sounds like — using natural language as your primary programming interface. Instead of wrestling with syntax, you describe what you want the agent to do, and the system figures out the implementation. Google’s framing it as a way to build “10x agents” by connecting tools and APIs through conversational workflows.

I’ve been skeptical of the “no-code” hype for years, but vibe coding feels different. It’s not about replacing developers; it’s about raising the abstraction level so you can focus on architecture and outcomes rather than boilerplate. The course covers foundational concepts through production-ready systems, so you’re not just playing with toy examples.

Each day combines conceptual deep dives with hands-on coding. By the end, you’re supposed to be able to design, build, and deploy robust agent systems. The capstone project is where you actually ship something — turning your own ideas into a working agent.

Is this going to make everyone an AI engineer overnight? No. But if you’ve been curious about building agents but found the tooling too fragmented, this is a solid on-ramp. Google’s ecosystem (Gemini, Vertex AI, etc.) is heavily featured, but the concepts transfer.

Registration is open now on the course website. Spots are limited, so if you’re interested, don’t sit on it.