AI tools are changing the world of software engineering. Agents don't replace human software developers—they act as a force multiplier, enabling teams to get more work done, better, and quicker—if the team knows how to use them effectively.

Proper training from an experienced AI expert is a key competitive advantage for any company. Nothing beats hands-on, in-person instruction by a master teacher. Your team will learn the core concepts of modern AI, LLMs, and agentic coding assistants. I’ll walk them through best practices for applying these tools to software design, share my battle-tested experiences from decades of professional software engineering, and explain which kinds of tasks benefit from AI help (and which don’t).

I’ve trained developers and teams at Google, VMware, GitHub, HashiCorp, Pivotal, Gruntwork, Nginx, JPMorgan Chase, Facebook, Elastic, Grafana Labs, GoCardless, Cisco, Pythian, Intuit, and dozens of other successful companies all over the world and in every sector of industry. They’ll tell you that my training style is a lot more fun and engaging than the usual boring PowerPoint presentations, because it’s live and interactive: the team will learn, discuss, reflect, Q&A, work on group projects, and take part in group exercises to build their understanding and get valuable practical experience with a wide range of the latest AI tools, including Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Copilot, Zed, Cursor, and Junie.

Every team member will also receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course.

What you’ll learn

• How to prompt like a senior engineer talking to a teammate, not a junior Googling for answers

• Crafting specifications and acceptance tests to guide the AI agents and keep them on track

• How to guide the AI to plan its work, iterate on features, give it guidance and feedback, and review the results

• Where AI can help with architecture, refactoring, tests, technical questions, and even team communication

• How your and AI can collaborate to build real projects with modern languages like Go and Rust

When you’re a master of AI tools, you won’t need to worry about being replaced by a machine. Your experience, creativity, judgement, and insight can’t be emulated by any LLM. What makes you human is also what makes you a great software engineer, and that was always about collaboration. Now you have a new collaborator.

With my guidance, you’ll learn just what AI dev tools can and can’t do, and how to mesh their strengths with your own. If you haven’t yet experienced how much fun it can be when AI is on your side, you’ll have a blast! When you and your silent partner are in perfect sync, it’s like coding with two brains.

Who the course is aimed at

• Junior or prospective junior developers who want to hit the ground running

• Mid-level engineers who are facing radical changes in their work environment

• Seniors and team leads who want to know how to get their teams working productively with AI

Your instructor

John Arundel is a consultant, teacher, and writer with over 40 years of experience in the software industry, and a long and successful track record of delivering training to some of the world’s top tech companies. He’s the author of many books on programming and computing topics, including Rust, Go, Puppet, and Kubernetes, a long-time contributor to the Rust language, and the maintainer of several popular open-source software libraries. His most recent books include The Deeper Love of Go and The Secrets of Rust: Tools, and he’s now working on a book about AI tooling.

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How it works

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