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AI in Software Development: Navigating Opportunities, Risks, and Guardrails


Description

This course is designed specifically for companies leveraging AI in their development practices or getting ready to empower their team with AI. Can this be done safely, without sacrificing code quality? Dive in and discover how to strike the perfect balance.


Estimated duration: 3 hours


By the end of this course, you’ll:

  • Understand how AI tools are reshaping the software development process.
  • Discover how AI accelerates productivity and reduces manual workload.
  • Recognise how AI can inadvertently introduce technical debt and code rot.
  • See how real-time code quality insights empower AI tools to make smarter suggestions.
  • Receive 4 Practical Steps for Safeguarding AI Generated Code and identifying and uplifting code that isn't AI-ready within minutes.

By completing this course, you’ll be ready to lead the next wave of innovation harnessing AI not just as a tool, but as a trusted partner in building smarter, faster, and more resilient software for the future. Are you ready? Let’s get started.

Content
  • The Current State of AI in Software Development (1 Hour)
  • Introduction
  • The AI Transformation
  • Can AI make us ship features faster?
  • Code Quality in the AI Age
  • The Inner Developer Loop
  • Module Wrap-Up
  • The Risks and AI Pitfalls (30-mins)
  • Risks and Challenges: The Double-Edged Sword of AI
  • Knowing the AI Pitfalls
  • Module Wrap-Up
  • Avoiding the pitfalls (30-mins)
  • AI-acceleration without the risks
  • Plugging intelligence into AI
  • The Solution: Safeguard AI with Guardrails (30 mins)
  • AI Is Now a Software Maintenance Actor
  • Strengthening the Inner Developer Loop
  • CodeScene's MCP Server: Core Use Cases
  • AI-Ready Code: How Unhealthy Code Undermines AI Performance (30-mins)
  • Strategic Recommendations for AI-Ready Engineering
  • Use Case: Which code is AI ready?
  • Use Case: Uplifting code that isn't AI ready
  • Course Wrap-Up
  • The future of AI-assisted development (5-mins)
  • The future of AI-assisted development
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
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