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I made this for my sister who has been curious about AI and coding (she is not a programmer). Its because I didn't want to sit and download each program individually, install each extension, Git, Node, ... also random people at work, lots of people get curious after me telling them how much fun it is.

I could not find any similar thing out there..

Includes at least two totally free and excellent free tier's of AI coding tools/APIs that can be used in the installed VS Code (auto-installs a couple AI coding extensions). Includes links to some other information I wrote about how to keep costs low or zero.. specifically for AI to help code (something that was trending on HN last month).

Its useful for when you are having random conversations about the topic and people are curious and want to maybe experiment... but have no idea how to start or what to do. Some people will loose interest when there are tons of steps or friction.

I could improve this a lot if anyone actually ends up using it besides myself, better docs and maybe a guide or example(s) step by step how to make/code something cool (or, links to some guides, videos, blogs/sites - I enjoy getting people into cool stuff like programming! If you can show someone how much cool things they can do before the brain boredom hits, they'll get some dopamine and maybe come back to it.

Interested in any feedback negative or positive, i'm probably missing a few things that should be included... I don't want to ever add anything spammy/scammy, things that you spend time to learn then they manipulate you into paying, no evil things etc.. no "gotchas" marketing "trickery" If I were to remake it i'd do it different: web/JS version where the checkboxes are online, and it creates a more custom script. More options and operating systems but with 2 or 3 good simple defaults to pick from.

The free AI models are Qwen3 Coder, Gemini 2.5 (probably 3 soon) Pro.. and there are usually one or two more that are built into the VS Code extensions Cline, Kilo Code. GLM 4.6 is $9 for 3 months. Github Copilot is an excellent value for all the Claude 4.5 credits they give you for $10 (maybe its temporary but I can go with the agent for hours, barely using 2%!)

--- Some people hate the phrase "vibe coding" but my own mother asked me if I had heard of it. Its out there in the consciousness and scammers are also out there in the same spaces, waiting in the bushes.. ready to pounce on people who don't know there are simpler, cheaper ways to access & use AI