If you’ve tried using Claude to learn to code and walked away feeling like you just witnessed a magic trick rather than actually learned something, you’re not alone. Without structure, AI coding tools default to doing the work for you—you end up with hundreds of lines of code without understanding the algorithm or the logic behind it. That said, after much trial and error, I’ve finally perfected a prompt that turns Claude into an exercise-driven tutor. It focuses on teaching concepts by making you work through the code, while also remembering your progress and difficulties to refine future sessions. Best of all, it only takes two minutes to set up. How you can use Claude vibe coding to learn actual coding The daily workflow and context tracking It’s not exactly news that you can use an LLM as a tutor. Being able to ask questions in natural language and get a relevant, contextual answer is a genuine game changer for self-learners. The experience is fundamentally different from—and often better than—Googling something. With search, you had to frame everything as keywords and hope someone had already written about your specific problem in a way that made sense. With an LLM, you just ask, and it explains the concept in a way you can actually relate to. Artificial intelligence basics Trivia challenge From chatbots to neural networks — find out how much you really know about AI. What does the term 'machine learning' most accurately describe? Who is widely credited with coining the term 'artificial intelligence' in 1956? What type of AI model powers popular chatbots like ChatGPT? What is 'overfitting' in machine learning? What is 'AI bias' most commonly referring to? What does 'GPT' stand for in AI model names like GPT-4? Which of the following best describes 'deep learning'? What