Coding with Agents

Last updated: 2026-08-05

A course on how software engineers work effectively in the age of AI coding agents.

Course Notes

#	Module	Topics
1	How to Prompt Coding Agents	How AI changes the dev workflow · Prompting principles · Defensive prompting · AGENTS.md · Time management
2	Anatomy of Coding Agents	How agents work · Autonomy levels · Collaboration modes · Claude Code architecture · Context management · Sub-agents & agent teams · Skills, hooks, MCP · Systematic thinking
3	Become a Power User (planned)	Orchestration layer · Engineering frameworks · Spec coding · Brownfield codebases
4	Team Development with Coding Agents (draft)	Specs as source of truth · Team-level context engineering · Intentional compaction · Code review at AI scale · Testing & security
5	Be an AI Architect (planned)	Software 3.0 · Builder's mindset · Future of software engineering

Module 4 is a draft; modules 3 and 5 are planned but not yet written. See ROADMAP.md in the repository for per-chapter status.

Resources

See RESOURCEs.md for curated reading lists, papers, and links.