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AI for software engineering learning guides

Using AI to superpower your software engineering workflow

AI agents

AI agents

RAG for Engineers

Learn how to create a lightweight, project-aware AI agent using open-source RAG techniques. Includes an n8n workflow and example integration with your repo and internal docs.

AI agents

From Code to Chat

Explores adding chat-style AI assistants directly into IDEs and internal dashboards. Covers use cases like context-aware help, legacy code Q&A, and codebase explorability. Includes sample integrations using open-source LLMs and embedding agents.

AI agents

Conversational Debugging

Master the art of collaborative debugging with AI assistants. Learn advanced conversation techniques for walking AI through complex bugs, sharing context effectively, and using AI to generate targeted debugging strategies for production incidents.

AI agents

The AI Debugging Assistant

Learn how to create AI debugging assistants that understand your specific codebase's common failure patterns. Covers fine-tuning approaches, creating custom error databases, and building AI workflows that can predict and prevent recurring bugs before they reach production.

Best Practice

Best Practice

Your First 100 AI Commits

As your team adopts AI-assisted coding, what does the output really look like? Learn what patterns to watch for, how to improve quality, and how to track impact over time.

Best Practice

Vibe Coding

Vibe coding isn't magic—it's just structured collaboration. This guide breaks down how to convert vague feature ideas into high-context prompts for real-world feature scaffolding.

Best Practice

Building AI-Enhanced Documentation

Create and maintain documentation that evolves with your codebase using AI. Covers automated README generation, API documentation from code analysis, architecture diagram generation, and keeping technical docs synchronized with rapid development cycles.

Code reviews

Code reviews

AI-Assisted Code Reviews

Explore a tactical breakdown of how experienced teams use AI to triage PRs, spot security flaws, and enforce architectural consistency—without giving up human control.

Code reviews

AI Code Review Automation

Step-by-step guide to creating AI-powered code review bots that go beyond syntax checking. Learn to build custom rules for architectural patterns, security vulnerabilities, and team-specific coding standards using LLM APIs integrated with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.

Prompting

Prompting

Prompt Patterns

Get reusable prompt recipes to go from product idea → schema design → CRUD APIs → frontend scaffolding—all within a single chat thread. Perfect for hack days and rapid prototyping.

Prompting

Prompt Engineering

A practical guide to using LLMs as your first line of support when debugging. Covers prompt strategies, follow-up techniques, and how to refine model answers to match your codebase and tools.

Prompting

Prompt Patterns That Scale

Introduces a library of high-impact prompt templates (e.g., “refactor me,” “explain this bug,” “generate type stubs”) and shows how to parameterize them for team-wide reuse, improving onboarding, documentation, and code reviews.

Prompting

Mastering ‘Vibe Coding’

A step-by-step guide showing how experienced and novice developers can use vibe coding effectively—from prompting patterns to iterative testing—while avoiding common pitfalls like untested assumptions and hallucinations. Includes real example sessions with Claude.

Prompting

Prompt Engineering for Infrastructure as Code

Master the art of using AI to generate, validate, and optimize Infrastructure as Code. Includes specific prompt patterns for Terraform modules, Kubernetes manifests, and cloud architecture decisions, plus techniques for AI-assisted security compliance checks.

AI Devops

AI Devops

AI-Assisted Microservices Decomposition

Use AI to analyze monolithic codebases and identify optimal service boundaries. Learn prompt strategies for dependency analysis, data flow mapping, and generating migration roadmaps that minimize business disruption during decomposition.

Git

Git

The Git Copilot

Turn noisy commits and vague PRs into a thing of the past. Learn how to automate concise, meaningful commit messages and pull request summaries using AI workflows.

Managing a team

Managing a team

Team Vibe

From async agent-based pair programming to LLM-generated standup summaries, this guide explores how AI reshapes day-to-day team rituals in high-performing engineering orgs.

Managing a team

AI-Powered Pair Programming at Scale

Discusses how engineering leaders can measure the impact of AI coding assistants. Proposes metrics like template completion rates, time-to-merge, bug-introduction frequency, and developer satisfaction. Includes templates for reporting ROI.

Managing a team

Measuring AI Developer Productivity

Beyond lines of code and commit frequency—discover meaningful ways to measure how AI tools impact your development workflow. Includes frameworks for tracking code quality improvements, time-to-resolution metrics, and ROI calculations for AI tool investments.

Managing a team

The New Engineer's AI Toolkit

A comprehensive onboarding guide for engineers new to AI-assisted development. Covers essential AI tools setup, prompt crafting for different coding tasks, when to trust AI suggestions, and building good AI collaboration habits from day one.

Managing a team

The Future of the Senior Engineer

A trend analysis on how senior engineering roles are evolving—from crafting prompt frameworks, validating AI outputs, to focusing on template orchestration and system steering. Aligns with insights from Andrew Ng, IBM, and ServiceNow's CTO .

Security and compliance

Security and compliance

Ethic in AI-generated code

Covers practical implications around code provenance, licensing, security hygiene, and regulatory considerations when using AI-generated code—especially in regulated industries like finance or healthcare.

Workflows

Workflows

Integrate LLMs Directly into Your Dev Stack

Explore techniques for embedding LLMs into VS Code, CI/CD pipelines, and internal dev tools—so your team can use AI without leaving the stack or copy-pasting code blocks.

Workflows

Building Guardrails

AI hallucinations can be costly. This article shows how to implement confidence checks, test scaffolds, and human-in-the-loop review steps to keep LLM output safe and usable.

Workflows

Building Intelligent CI/CD Pipelines with AI

A hands-on tutorial integrating popular LLM-powered tools into existing CI/CD workflows. Covers automating test case creation, static analysis, security scanning, and deployment orchestration—with code samples in GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.

Workflows

Explainable LLMs in Code Reviews

Shows how to integrate explainability methods into AI code review processes—like requiring justification, referencing documentation, or tracing code origins. Includes prompt hacks and vetting checklists to build trust in AI suggestions.

Using AI for APIs

Using AI for APIs

AI-First API Design

Transform product requirements and user stories into production-ready API specifications using AI. Covers techniques for extracting data models from business logic, generating comprehensive OpenAPI docs, and validating API designs against real-world usage patterns.

Using AI for your databases

Using AI for your databases

AI-Powered Database Schema Evolution

A hands-on guide to using AI tools like Claude and GPT-4 to analyze existing database schemas, generate migration scripts, and plan safe schema transformations. Covers prompt engineering for database analysis, automated migration testing, and handling complex foreign key relationships during modernization projects.

Vibe coding

Vibe coding

No‑Code to Full‑Stack

A guide for product managers, designers, and others to build full-stack features—databases, APIs, UIs—by collaborating with LLMs. Demonstrates workflows using Autocode, OpenAI APIs, and low-code platforms.

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