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The Future Proof Dev: An Intro to AI for Web Developers

Your first step into AI-powered development

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What you'll gain

Get a solid foundation in AI-assisted development. Learn what AI coding tools can and can't do, how to evaluate them, and how to integrate them into your daily workflow without disrupting your existing process.

Syllabus

11 lessons · 1 hr 7 min

Where to Start?

1 lesson
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Introduction to AI for Web Developers
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a cornerstone of modern software development. In the past few years, AI tools have evolved from niche experiments to widespread productivity boosters for developers. In fact, the majority of developers are already using or planning to use AI in their workflows.
4 minFree

Getting into the Details

9 lessons
2
What is AI (for Developers)?
What is AI? Well, at its core, AI is a field of computer science that enables software to perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence. Things such as understanding language, recognizing patterns, or making decisions.
5 min
3
A Gentle Onboarding to AI in Your Everyday Workflow
The easiest way to get started with AI is with a browser-based tool like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. These all allow you to interact with an LLM via an intuitive chat interface, and they take zero effort to set up.
5 min
4
More Examples of Using AI for Common Development Tasks
Besides writing code and writing tests, LLMs can also help with other aspects of programming. In this lesson, let's quickly demo some other helpful coding tasks that AI is good at. First, let's see if it can successfully debug some code that's not working as expected.
10 min
5
Powering Up Your IDE with AI
as clearly seen from the last couple of lessons, AI has a lot to offer the modern developer. Using ChatGPT is only the beginning though. It's a good gateway drug per se, but you can go so much deeper. Why?
8 min
6
What is Context?
Before we continue to the next level of the spectrum, let me pause briefly to explain a concept called context. You've probably heard me mention it quite a few times in the last lesson. So what exactly is context? Well, sometimes I use the word casually.
4 min
7
Targeted Quick Edits with AI
In this lesson, let's expand a little further on level two of the AI assistance spectrum. Let's say I wanted to refactor all these calls to use callback, to use a traditional function declaration instead of an arrow function. In the past, we'd have to handle each line individually.
2 min
8
AI Agents That Write Code, Run Commands, and More
In the futuristic nineties movie, The Matrix, Morpheus tells Neo, you take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Up to this point, we've shared enough to make things interesting while not overwhelming you. However, it's in this lesson that you truly take the red pill.
14 min
9
Putting Agents to Work in Parallel (Asynchronous Background Agents)
The next obvious step after deploying a single agent is to deploy multiple agents at once. That way you can get even more done in the same amount of time. These types of agents are completely autonomous and they can work on different tasks in parallel.
10 min
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High Level Overview of Other Specialized AI Development Tools
By now you've seen how powerful AI can be when it's placed in the right environment. Tools like Cursor take a developer-centric approach to integrating AI directly into your IDE. Like Cursor, there are other developer-centric tools for tackling specific pieces of the development lifecycle.
3 min

Final Thoughts

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Conclusion
Congrats, you made it. You've just finished the course and have taken a big step towards future-proofing your skills in this AI-driven world.
2 min

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