DEV-403 Development

Engineering in the AI Era: What Changes for Dev & Test

Give a whole engineering organisation one accurate, unhyped picture of what AI assistants change about building and testing software. Learners see demonstrated strengths and demonstrated failures side by side, then work through how estimation, code review, onboarding, testing and accountability actually shift. The session ends with the team drafting its own norms for tool use, disclosure and review.

B2Foundation

5modules

35skill atoms

2role journeys

Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 35 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1What Assistants Genuinely Do Well7 skill atoms

scaffolding and boilerplatetranslation between languages and formatstest and documentation draftingonboarding to an unfamiliar APIlarge mechanical refactorsexploring several options quicklyrealistic speed-up ranges from published studies

2What They Do Badly7 skill atoms

plausible-but-wrong outputhallucinated APIs and packagesmissing domain and business rulessilent security defectsstale training knowledgeconfident tone masking uncertaintydrift and forgetting in long sessions

3How The Work Changes7 skill atoms

estimating with variable AI leveragereview becoming the real bottleneckonboarding and mentoring shifts for juniorstesting under higher change volumepairing patterns with an assistantspecification and design work gaining weightaccountability staying with the human author

4The New Failure Modes7 skill atoms

over-trust and rubber-stamp reviewskill atrophy in early-career engineersunreviewed volume flooding pull requestshomogenised code losing house idiomsprompt-shaped technical debtshadow tool use and data leakagemetrics rewarding output not outcome

5Setting Team Norms7 skill atoms

disclosure of AI-authored diffsdiff size limits that keep review honestapproved tools and permitted data classessecret and PII prompt rulesdefinition of done left unchangeda measured trial before rolloutnorms review cadence

Where it fits

DEV-403 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Software Engineer (AI-era)

Foundation stage

AI-101→DEV-403→AI-506

Engineering Manager

Foundation stage

AI-106→DEV-403→AI-505

Roles this course serves

Engineering Manager Software Engineer (AI-era)

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B2.

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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Engineering in the AI Era: What Changes for Dev & Test

What this course covers.

DEV-403 in the role journeys.

Software Engineer (AI-era)

Engineering Manager

Roles this course serves

This course is authored to band B2.

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