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Principled AI Coding

Principles and techniques for handing more work to an AI coding assistant, centered on context, prompt, and model rather than any one app. Covers prompting in production codebases, spec workflows, common pitfalls, and agentic loops.

8 lessons. Paid video course with lifetime access. A no-questions-asked refund is available before lesson four. Follow-along work uses OpenAI and Anthropic API keys.

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Curriculum

    1. 01 Hello AI Coding World: Install, Configure, Prompt
    2. 02 Multi-File Editing: STOP coding, START prompting
    3. 03 Know your IDKs: Crafting the PERFECT Prompt
    4. 04 How to Suck at AI Coding: Common Pitfalls and Practical Solutions
    5. 05 Spec based AI Coding with Reasoning Models
    6. 06 Aider Has a Secret
    7. 07 Let the code write itself
    8. 08 Principled AI Coding

Pricing

Paid
Full Course $299
Includes 50+ bonus assets, private GitHub repos, and extra essays. Hands-on examples use Aider; the principles apply across AI coding tools.
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