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Module 1: Context, Scope, and Delivery Challenges

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

Module 2: Specification Ingestion and Structured Decomposition

  • Building a structural inventory of stakeholder documents
  • Requirement extraction techniques
  • Chunking strategies: structural, semantic, sliding-window
  • Preserving dependencies and cross-references
  • Working with tables, diagrams, flowcharts, and mixed inputs
  • Managing context windows effectively

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
  • Validation frameworks for traceability, consistency, and completeness

Module 4: From Requirements to Code with Agentic Tools

  • Adopting an architecture-first delivery model
  • Component mapping and defining service boundaries
  • Leveraging API contracts as delivery anchors
  • Implementing persistent rules and constraints within AI tools
  • Linking task instructions to requirements
  • Comparing minimal prompting vs. constrained prompting approaches
  • Contract-first backend and frontend generation

Module 5: Agentic Iteration Loop

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

Module 6: Code Quality Enforcement

  • Applying prompt constraints for edge cases
  • Utilizing rules documents as living governance artifacts
  • Establishing automated gates with linting and static analysis
  • Conducting security scanning in AI-generated code
  • Performing dependency and architecture conformance checks
  • Implementing human review protocols for AI outputs

Module 7: Feedback Loops and Continuous Improvement

  • Incorporating 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 rules appendices
  • Implementing pre-commit security scanning
  • Applying 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 tests using domain language
  • Safely generating test implementations
  • Understanding mutation testing concepts
  • Validating specification coverage
  • Conducting assertion-strength reviews
  • Utilizing diagnostic questioning models

Module 10: Maintaining the System

  • Managing 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:

  • Experience in software development projects
  • A solid understanding of application architecture fundamentals
  • Familiarity with APIs, backend/frontend systems, or full-stack delivery
  • Basic knowledge of Agile or iterative software delivery methodologies
  • Awareness of software testing concepts
  • Exposure to AI coding tools is beneficial but not required
  • The course is suitable for mid-level to senior technical professionals
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