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AI Skills for Real Engineers
Build a repeatable workflow for working with coding agents without giving up your engineering standards.
One practical lesson each day. Learn the skills, try them on real work, and finish with a workflow you can reuse.
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The 7-day curriculum
From fuzzy idea to a workflow you trust
- 1
Choose your workflow path
Start with reusable agent workflows instead of one-off prompts.
- 2
Clarify the work with /grill-with-docs
Find the fuzzy decisions before an agent starts building.
- 3
Test uncertain ideas with /prototype and /handoff
Make the unknown visible in a small, throwaway context.
- 4
Turn decisions into /to-spec and /to-tickets
Break large work into reviewable vertical slices.
- 5
Run safer AFK agents with Sandcastle
Use scoped tasks, isolation, visible logs, and reviewable commits.
- 6
Review the result with /code-review
Find avoidable mistakes and improve the system around the diff.
- 7
Put the full workflow together
Run the loop from fuzzy idea to a better next agent run.
Built from Matt Pocock’s working AI skills
Matt created AI Hero and the practical agent skills taught in this course.