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AIW 201 · For anyone who codes with AI

AI at Work: Coding agents

For anyone who codes with AI, including people who build apps without reading code: permissions and sandboxes, hostile text, secrets, reviewing changes and recovering from mistakes.

11 lessons · about 43 min · quiz · certificate

AI Literacy: Foundations is a good place to start.

Course outline

Lessons

  1. 1What a coding agent does on your machineWhat a coding agent can do with your access · Agents that keep working while you are away · How an agent under test broke into Hugging Face3:19
  2. 2Choosing the job and briefing a coding agentWhich coding jobs suit an agent and which to keep · Actions an agent takes that nobody asked for · How to brief a coding agent and check its plan3:51
  3. 3Permissions, sandboxes and approval modesHow much an agent may do in each approval mode · Why approving every step wears attention down · What a sandbox contains and where it leaks · Keeping production credentials out of reach4:59
  4. 4Hostile text in repositories, issues and pull requestsHow text in a repository can give an agent orders · How an issue title exposed a project's publish tokens · Repository settings that run before you approve · Limiting what agents in your pipeline can reach4:46
  5. 5Packages, plugins and servers an agent addsWhy agents suggest packages that don't exist · How a worm hid in a coding agent's settings file · Plugins and connectors that change after approval · How to check what an agent wants to install4:06
  6. 6Secrets and data in a coding agent's reachWhat a coding agent can read on your computer · How agents leaked screenshots and secrets · Storing secrets and test data away from the agent3:47
  7. 7Reviewing an agent's changes before they shipHow a unit test pushed a deletion to main branches · Reviewing every file and command the agent ran · Checking the result when the agent says it is fine · Protecting the main branch so a person approves4:11
  8. 8Using AI review agents on pull requestsWhat AI reviewers catch and where they go wrong · Writing review rules the pull request can't change · Keeping the merge decision with a person · How a pull request can attack the AI reviewer5:16
  9. 9Building an app with an agent when you don't read codeThe AI-built social site that exposed its database · Where apps built by agents usually fail · Which apps need a developer's review first · Using the platform's checks before you publish3:54
  10. 10When a coding agent breaks somethingStopping an agent and everything it started · Rotating keys, restoring data and keeping the logs · Who answers for what a coding agent did3:54
  11. 11The habits for coding agents and your certificate1:13
  1. Final quizOpens when every lesson is done.
  2. CertificateA dated record of completion, issued when you pass the quiz.