Learning path · Advanced
Software development with AI
Subscribers onlyBuild reliable software with an AI coding assistant. From good briefing and testing to a harness with validation gates and your own MCP connector, with two ready-made kits to get started straight away.
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Available with an active subscription, in every plan (Starter, Growth and Business). Not during the free trial.
View pricing4 courses · approximately 7 weeks
Based on 10 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Only existing lessons count.
Curriculum

1.Building software with an AI coding assistant
9 lessons · 82 minutes
- From chatbot to coding assistant9 min
- The working loop: plan, act, verify9 min
- What you leave to the assistant, and what you do not8 min
- Context is everything9 min
- CLAUDE.md, your project's memory10 min
- From idea to plan: writing specs for an assistant9 min
- Iterating with git9 min
- Reviewing an assistant's code9 min
- Your first project with an assistant10 min

2.Testing, review and security of AI code
9 lessons · 78 minutes
- Why tests matter more with AI8 min
- Test first, then code9 min
- Evidence before you say "done"8 min
- Reading what the assistant wrote9 min
- The typical mistakes of assistants9 min
- A second pair of eyes, human and artificial8 min
- Secrets and personal data9 min
- Dependencies and hidden instructions9 min
- A secure way of working for your team9 min

3.Harness engineering: letting AI build within gates
9 lessons · 83 minutes
- Why a strong assistant needs a harness9 min
- The four layers of a harness9 min
- Steering versus enforcing8 min
- Eight phases, seven gates10 min
- Scope is sacred9 min
- Signing off gates without box-ticking9 min
- Writing ground rules that work9 min
- Skills and hooks: ways of working and enforcement10 min
- Putting the AI project flow kit to work10 min

4.Building an MCP connector for your own software
9 lessons · 81 minutes
- Letting Claude talk to your own software9 min
- When a connector makes sense8 min
- Security from the start9 min
- The intake: start from the questions9 min
- Designing tools Claude uses well10 min
- The gate: approval by the data owner8 min
- The MCP connector kit and the server10 min
- Building and testing with the skills9 min
- Rolling out, connecting to Claude and managing9 min