The most important workshop I ever did

In February 2026 I did the AI Computer Use Workshop. Its subtitle was “Vibe Coding for Non-Coders”. I had to call it something.

The premise: what can you do, build, create, solve - if you give AI a computer? Full control. As admin.

I have given a lot of workshops and trainings in my career. I calculated “Daumen mal Pi” (rule of thumb) around 500+. And this one was the best one. Everything just fell into place.

No slides, one computer each

There were no slides. I prepared this instead:

• A desktop in the cloud for every participant, accessible via the browser.
• The VNC remote desktop hosting and environment, itself vibe-coded with Claude Code.
• Hosted on a super capable Hetzner server (German hosting provider).
• Claude Code and Codex pre-installed with sudo/admin rights.
• A decent AI token budget.
• Ready-made: logged into GitHub, logged into Vercel, email accounts set up, and some other stuff.

And no, you don’t need to know what these are and how to use them. There is AI for that.

(Oh, by the way: the reason there was no background image on that desktop is that it would waste valuable bandwidth streaming the desktop to your computer. That’s why the baby blue.)

I had given this workshop a few times before, and I had been running AI First workshops for 2 years. So there was experience on my side. And the participants were eager to learn, try out, see, play, test, challenge.

What the participants said

Tanja Wassermair, CPO and Team Lead at GeoGebra, wrote on LinkedIn:

“Just completed the AI Computer Use workshop with Franz Enzenhofer! Learned so much about developer thinking and problem solving and more. Highly recommend for anyone looking to level up their skills! I left the one-day session on AI-powered computer use for non-coders really inspired. It completely changed how I think about turning ideas into reality. The tools and approaches we explored enable rapid, hands-on experimentation, allowing me to test and refine ideas in a practical way without months of planning, implementation, and review. It was empowering to see how quickly concepts can become working solutions, even for non-developers.”

And Gerald Aichholzer:

“Franz Enzenhofer has a rare gift: he doesn’t just explain the future, he makes you see it in real time - because he clearly lives there. I’ve made a habit of attending his workshops from time to time for exactly that reason: there’s no better way to get a truly in-depth read on where technology is actually heading.

I came in with a decent ‘digital product guy’ foundation - hours of ChatGPT daily, some Cursor and VS Code experience, a first taste of Codex - but this workshop snapped everything into focus. A set up VNC, Claude Code installed, and within minutes I understood something I hadn’t fully grasped before: when you give an AI coding agent a live environment and let it run, the only real limit left is the quality of your own ideas.

What made it truly special was watching the room. Complete non-coders built games, extended their existing products, added features that - without exaggeration - visibly multiplied the value of their businesses on the spot. Not a single minute felt wasted, whether you were a beginner or already had some technical background.

Highly recommended for anyone who has ever thought ‘if only I could build that idea.’ You could.”

Using his workshop learnings, Gerald then built a super awesome AI job market data visualiser. It analyses 112 occupations across 4.4 million employees in Austria for AI exposure. Interactive treemap, filterable by exposure score, sortable by sector, colour-coded risk levels. His data says 43.6% of the Austrian workforce face high AI exposure.

He built it on a Hetzner VPS with Claude Code. The workshop in action.

What 12 participants built in one day

All in all, the 12 participants created 90+ projects.

They ranged from:

• fishing games you can play in your browser
• AI-generated cat video generators
• interactive 3D data visualisations of economic data
• city guides
• a lawn care blog
• a Jira ticket prioritiser that auto-generates GitHub PRs
• a travel booking engine
• a video-analysing coaching app

Kudos to the Jira ticketing tool. I have worked with Jira more than I ever wanted to in my life. And in the workshop one participant presented a tool that took 90% of the pain I experienced with Jira out of it. It processed their live Jira environment in real time, with AI doing the analysis, scoring severity, detecting duplicates - and generating GitHub PRs with the fix. In the workshop. In one day. In the afternoon.

Then the video analysis sport coach left me speechless. Not gonna tell you more, as they might turn it into a product. Just mindblowing.

And the production-ready tissue box generator! AI-generated designs via Google Gemini. Custom patterns. For tissue boxes. This product is not gonna save the world, but it will make it way more colourful.

The point

Why was it the most important workshop I ever did?

Before this, I knew - intellectually - that AI changes everything for everybody, not only for me. What is possible. What is impossible. For me, for others, for organisations.

But knowing it and seeing it are two different things. This time I saw it happen. In real time. In front of me. Every single participant blew my mind and showed me what is actually possible when you put the right AI tools in the right hands.

So what is the point, the enthusiastic point here?

The future is here. It is not yet widely distributed.

Let’s distribute it.