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Udacity

Vibe Engineering

via Udacity

Overview

Master the professional discipline of Vibe Engineering: the transition from ad-hoc prompting to systematic AI orchestration. Working in a fully hosted, AI-enabled development environment, you will build production-ready projects using Claude Code, the world’s top Agentic coding assistant. Learn to apply engineering rigor to AI-generated systems through structured prompting, failure mode detection, and security guardrails. You’ll practice integrating agents into the full development lifecycle, from planning through release-ready code, with guardrails for security and reliability.

Syllabus

  • Review Code Like an Engineer
    • Systematically review code—AI or human—by applying the quality pyramid, spotting universal and AI-specific red flags, and practicing critical code review skills for production readiness.
  • Patterns and Pitfalls in AI-Generated Code
    • Learn to identify and address five common patterns in AI-generated code, assess code quality, and apply systematic review to ensure reliable AI collaboration in development.
  • Prompt with Purpose
    • Master proactive, structured prompting to prevent AI code issues. Use templates, clarity, examples, and constraints for higher-quality, efficient, and consistent AI collaboration.
  • Risks, Responsibilities, and the Limits of Trust
    • Assess security, ethical, and reliability risks in AI-assisted code, and understand your professional responsibility and limits of trust when approving code for production.
  • Collaborate with AI Throughout the Development Cycle
    • Learn to collaborate with AI throughout the development cycle—planning, coding, testing, refactoring, and documenting—while maintaining engineering control and standards.
  • Flashcard Quizzer: AI-Assisted CLI Learning Application
    • Engineer a production-ready CLI application by guiding an AI agent to generate, review, and refine code.

Taught by

Bruce Cantarim

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