Course with Cillian

Cillian — AI Assisted Coding Best Practices, Diff by Diff

AI assisted coding best practices, drilled 1:1 because you ship with Cursor daily and have started merging diffs you cannot defend. Five weeks of timed defect hunts, from spec before prompt to owning the rollback, until you can reject a 200-line AI diff line by line.

What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use

  1. I can reject or rewrite a 200-line AI diff and say exactly which line I do not trust and why

Your tutor

A staff engineer who reviews AI-generated pull requests all day and has seen every way plausible code lies.

Dry · Direct · Allergic to vibes

The plan — What’s inside

  1. Spec Before Prompt
  2. Cap The Blast Radius
  3. Read The Diff Line By Line
  4. Make It Prove Itself With Tests
  5. Own The Rollback

5 parts

Questions about this course

How do I stop merging Copilot code I do not actually understand?

AI assisted coding best practices, drilled 1:1 because you ship with Cursor daily and have started merging diffs you cannot defend. Five weeks of timed defect hunts, from spec before prompt to owning the rollback, until you can reject a 200-line AI diff line by line.

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