Course material

Lectures

L01

Intro + Prompt to App

Introduce the class, build your first end-to-end app, and examine how to steer and verify AI-assisted code.

L02

Coding on a Budget

Model choice as a hiring decision: capability, task fit, and total cost. The prompt-run-refine loop, practiced by hand.

L03

The Agent Harness

What turns a model into a coding agent: the loop, the tools, and the guardrails that make up the harness around it.

L04

Agent Steering

How to steer a coding agent: specs and checks it can run, plan mode, interrupting and rewinding, AGENTS.md, and skills.

More lectures posted weekly, after each Thursday session.