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Course Outline

Module 1: Context, Scope, and Delivery Challenges

  • Distinguishing between autocomplete and autonomous multi-step execution
  • Addressing common AI misconceptions in software delivery
  • Understanding why superior prompts alone are insufficient
  • Identifying participant tooling, pain points, and objectives
  • Selecting the appropriate AI operating model for engineering teams

Module 2: Specification Ingestion and Structured Decomposition

  • Creating a structural inventory of stakeholder documents
  • Employing requirement extraction techniques
  • Implementing chunking strategies: structural, semantic, and sliding-window methods
  • Preserving dependencies and cross-references
  • Handling tables, diagrams, flowcharts, and mixed input formats
  • Effectively managing context windows

Module 3: Human Judgment Boundaries

  • Identifying areas where human decision-making remains critical
  • Spotting hallucinated dependencies
  • Detecting fabricated constraints and inverted logic
  • Preventing unsafe helpful defaults
  • Applying validation frameworks for traceability, consistency, and completeness

Module 4: From Requirements to Code with Agentic Tools

  • Adopting an architecture-first delivery model
  • Mapping components and defining service boundaries
  • Leveraging API contracts as delivery anchors
  • Applying persistent rules and constraints within AI tools
  • Linking task instructions to specific requirements
  • Comparing minimal prompting versus constrained prompting approaches
  • Generating backend and frontend code using a contract-first approach

Module 5: Agentic Iteration Loop

  • Navigating the self-correction spiral
  • Executing controlled iterative delivery cycles
  • Reviewing diffs and code changes
  • Detecting scope creep and unauthorized modifications
  • Managing limited context memory
  • Leveraging iteration history for continuous improvement

Module 6: Code Quality Enforcement

  • Defining prompt constraints for edge cases
  • Treating rules documents as living governance artifacts
  • Implementing automated gates with linting and static analysis
  • Conducting security scanning on AI-generated code
  • Verifying dependency and architecture conformance
  • Establishing human review protocols for AI outputs

Module 7: Feedback Loops and Continuous Improvement

  • Feeding structured failures back into AI workflows
  • Defining bounded iterations and stop criteria
  • Logging cycles and outcomes
  • Refining rules documents over time
  • Building reusable engineering intelligence

Module 8: Security Anti-Patterns in AI Delivery

  • Identifying common security risks in generated code
  • Reviewing technology-specific security rule appendices
  • Conducting pre-commit security scanning
  • Implementing secure SDLC controls for AI-assisted development
  • Ensuring human accountability in secure delivery

Module 9: Testing Anchored to Specifications

  • Generating test specifications from requirements
  • Designing domain-language tests
  • Safely generating test implementations
  • Understanding mutation testing concepts
  • Validating specification coverage
  • Reviewing assertion strength
  • Utilizing diagnostic questioning models

Module 10: Maintaining the System

  • Maintaining living artifacts: contracts, maps, rules, and test specs
  • Evolving constraints over time
  • Applying AI governance for long-term maintainability
  • Preventing technical debt using AI controls
  • Establishing an operating model for sustainable AI engineering teams

Requirements

Participants should possess the following:

  • Practical experience in software development projects
  • A solid understanding of fundamental application architecture principles
  • Familiarity with APIs, backend or frontend systems, or full-stack delivery processes
  • Basic knowledge of Agile or iterative software delivery methodologies
  • Awareness of core software testing concepts
  • Exposure to AI coding tools is advantageous but not mandatory
  • Suitable for mid-level to senior technical professionals
 14 Hours

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