Course Outline

Introduction to Claude Code & AI-Assisted Software Engineering

  • What Claude Code is and how it differs from traditional AI tools
  • The role of generative AI agents in software engineering
  • Using large prompts to build entire applications
  • Understanding productivity gains from AI-assisted development

AI Labor & Software Engineering Productivity

  • Treating Claude Code as an AI development team
  • Addressing common fears and misconceptions about AI in engineering
  • Understanding AI labor economics
  • Leveraging the Best-of-N pattern to generate multiple solutions
  • Selecting and refining optimal implementations

Claude Code, Design, and Code Quality

  • Evaluating whether AI can judge code quality
  • Applying software design principles with AI assistance
  • Using AI to explore requirements and solution spaces
  • Rapid prototyping with conversational design workflows
  • Applying constraints and structured prompts to improve output quality

Process, Context, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  • The importance of process and context over raw code generation
  • Global persistent context using CLAUDE.md
  • Structuring project rules, architecture, and constraints in context files
  • Reusable targeted context through Claude Code commands
  • In-context learning by teaching Claude Code with examples

Automation & Documentation with Claude Code

  • Using Claude Code to generate and maintain documentation
  • Automating repetitive engineering tasks
  • Creating reusable workflows driven by context and commands

Version Control & Parallel Development with Claude Code

  • Integrating Claude Code with Git-based workflows
  • Using Git branches and worktrees with AI agents
  • Running Claude Code tasks in parallel
  • Coordinating multiple AI subagents on separate features
  • Managing parallel feature development safely

Scaling Claude Code & AI Reasoning

  • Acting as Claude Code’s hands, eyes, and ears
  • Ensuring Claude Code reviews and checks its own work
  • Managing token limits and architectural complexity
  • Designing project structure and file naming for AI scalability
  • Maintaining long-term codebase health with AI assistance

Multimodal Prompting & Process-Driven Development

  • Fixing process and context before fixing code
  • Translating informal inputs (notes, sketches, specs) into production code
  • Using multimodal inputs to guide implementation
  • Creating repeatable AI-assisted development processes

Capstone: Defining Your Claude Code Process

  • Designing a personal or team-level Claude Code workflow
  • Combining context files, commands, subagents, and prompts
  • Creating a reusable, scalable AI-assisted engineering process

Requirements

  • An understanding of software development principles and common engineering workflows.
  • Experience with a programming language such as JavaScript, Python, etc.
  • Command line / terminal usage experience and familiarity with Git workflows.

Audience

  • Software developers seeking to integrate AI into their development process.
  • Technical team leads aiming to improve engineering productivity with AI tools.
  • DevOps engineers and engineering managers interested in AI-assisted coding automation.
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