DEV-401 Development

AI-Assisted Development with Coding Assistants

Get genuine, measurable leverage from coding assistants without importing defects, licence risk or unreviewed volume into the codebase. Learners practise spec-first prompting, supply the right repository context, and drill the review discipline that catches plausible-but-wrong output before it merges. The course ends by defining how the team will measure whether assistants actually made it faster.

B3Practitioner

6modules

42skill atoms

3role journeys

Curriculum

What this course covers.

6 modules, 42 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Getting Real Leverage7 skill atoms

task selection for assistantsscaffolding and boilerplate winslarge mechanical refactorstest and fixture draftingunfamiliar API onboardingsession drift over long chatsknowing when to stop prompting and type it

2Prompting for Code7 skill atoms

spec-first prompt structuresupplying a failing test as the targetconstraint and house-style instructionssmall-diff iterationasking for alternatives and trade-offsrejecting and re-prompting cleanlyreusable prompt snippets for the team

3Context & Repository Awareness7 skill atoms

file and symbol context selectionrepo indexing and retrieval limitsproject instruction filesmonorepo context blowupsstale context after your own editsdependency version mismatch in suggestionscontext window budgeting

4Review Discipline for Generated Code7 skill atoms

read every generated lineplausible-but-wrong detection drillshallucinated APIs and methodssilently swallowed errorsoff-by-one and boundary defectsinjection and authz gaps in generated handlersdiff size limits that keep review real

5Licensing, Provenance & Data Hygiene7 skill atoms

training-data licence exposurecopyleft contamination riskprovenance notes in commitshallucinated package names and slopsquattingsecrets and PII pasted into promptsenterprise vs consumer tool boundariescode retention and telemetry settings

6Did It Actually Help?7 skill atoms

cycle time and PR throughputrework and revert rateescaped defect rate before and afterreview load per engineerDORA metrics split by AI-authored diffsself-reported speed vs measured deltarunning an honest time-boxed trial

Where it fits

DEV-401 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 3 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Software Engineer (AI-era)

Practitioner stage

AI-310→DEV-401→SEC-303

Java Developer

Practitioner stage

DEV-201→DEV-401→DEV-202

Full-Stack Developer

Practitioner stage

DEV-212→DEV-401→DEV-213

Roles this course serves

Full-Stack Developer Java Developer Software Engineer (AI-era)

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B3.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence

AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance

Knowledge checks

FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts

Guided labs, autograded exercises

PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently

Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams

ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes

Break-fix drills, design defenses

AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others

Rubric-scored capstones, vivas

ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams

Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

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AI-Assisted Development with Coding Assistants

What this course covers.

DEV-401 in the role journeys.

Software Engineer (AI-era)

Java Developer

Full-Stack Developer

Roles this course serves

This course is authored to band B3.

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