Vibe Machine Learning with Hugging Face's ML Intern in HuggingChat

Melvin Vivas · X video post · 2026-09-15 · 0:36 · 356 views · Open on X

Topics: AI Dev Tools & Productivity, AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, Programming & ML Foundations · Level: beginner

Summary

This is a short post with a silent video. It introduces ML Intern, which the quoted post calls a harness for AI building: it does for building ML/AI solutions what Claude Code and Cursor do for software development. ML Intern is now built into HuggingChat, so you describe an AI use case in plain language and the agent handles the work. Melvin Vivas calls this "Vibe Machine Learning" and says it's a good way to get started and to learn new things along the way.

Key points

• "Vibe Machine Learning" means describing an ML/AI goal in plain language and letting an agent build the solution, much like vibe coding.
• ML Intern is described as being to AI building what Claude Code and Cursor are to software development.
• The ML Intern harness is now fully built into HuggingChat (hf.co/chat).
• How it works: bring an AI use case and ask for it. The agent does the ML work.
• The creator recommends it as a beginner-friendly starting point and as a way to learn new ML techniques by watching what the agent does.

Resources mentioned

• HuggingChat · tool · hf.co · free
  Hugging Face's chat interface for talking to AI models, which now includes the ML Intern agent harness.
• ML Intern · tool · github.com · free
  Hugging Face's agent harness that builds ML/AI solutions from plain-language requests.
  Also in: ML Intern: Post-Train a Model by Chatting (Hugging Face) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
  Also in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 101 more
• Cursor · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  AI-native code editor (VS Code with AI built in).
  Also in: GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash now in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Assistants (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 121 more

Try this

• Open HuggingChat at hf.co/chat and use the ML Intern harness.
• Pick an AI use case and describe it to ML Intern in plain language.
• Look at the steps the agent takes so you learn new ML techniques from it.