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DF Labs Presents Free Academic & Writing Mini Classes at National Vibe Coding Competition 2025
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Six Free Classes Over Three Days Show Students and Researchers How to Use AI Across Academic Work, Without Handing Over Their Judgment
1 October 2025 – DF Labs, an Applied AI R&D collective, presented the Academic & Writing track of free mini classes at National Vibe Coding Competition (NVCC) 2025, held with Yogyakomtek at Gelanggang Inovasi dan Kreativitas (GIK) UGM, Yogyakarta, from September 28 to 30, 2025. Over three days, six in-person sessions led by Almer Akbar, Nuel Cahyanto and Raihan Ahimsa showed students and researchers how to use AI across the whole of academic work, from finding and reading literature to writing and thinking with it.
Literature reviews and academic writing are essential but time-consuming and messy. AI can read at scale, summarize many papers at once, and surface patterns, gaps and overlaps, but only if the researcher stays in control. That principle ran through all six classes.
On September 28, Almer Akbar opened with "NotebookLM for Concept Mastery," explaining why ordinary chatbots are unreliable for study, with unpredictable sources and citations that are sometimes invented, and how NotebookLM answers only from the sources a user uploads, for analysis and synthesis with far less risk of hallucination. Nuel Cahyanto followed with "JSON Prompting: LLM-Augmented Citation," on using structured prompts to keep citations organized and checkable.
On September 29, Nuel Cahyanto led "Co-Researching with AI," and Raihan Ahimsa led "Deep Literature Review," a workflow for literature reviews with deep research tools: scope the research question, collect studies, extract each study's sample, methods and results into a fixed template, synthesize by comparing and contrasting, and iterate.
On September 30, Raihan Ahimsa closed with two sessions. "Collaborative Writing with Generative AI" drew the line between writing with AI and having AI write for you, introduced zero-shot and few-shot prompting, and compared how different models' "personalities" suit different writing tasks. "Augment Your Thinking with AI" asked participants to move from using AI as an answer machine or shortcut to using it as a sparring partner, tutor and planning assistant, guided by three rules: be clear, give context, and iterate.
Across all six classes, the same principles returned: AI assists and the researcher decides, a better question gets a better answer, every output must be verified, and good results come from iteration rather than one-shot magic. DF Labs reaffirmed its commitment to helping Indonesia's students and researchers use AI with rigor.
About DF Labs
DF Labs is an Applied AI R&D studio committed to experimental exploration and analysis of artificial intelligence and its implications in our future. Through workshops, community gatherings, and collaborative research, DF Labs bridges visionaries, creative thinkers, and technical innovators to co-design an AI future that enriches society.
About National Vibe Coding Competition 2025
The National Vibe Coding Competition 2025 was a coding competition focused on venture creation, gig-economy solutions and AI-powered innovation, held at Gelanggang Inovasi dan Kreativitas (GIK) UGM, Yogyakarta, in collaboration with Yogyakomtek. Under the theme "Synthesize The Future: Human Creativity × Agentic AI," it featured Vibe Coding, Creative Content, Academic & Writing, and Music & Arts tracks.
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