Course 02 · aihero.dev

Working with coding agents

Matt Pocock's material, taught to professional developers who have barely used an agent. Their engineering judgement is the asset. It transfers.

THE SESSION · 19 SLIDES · 25 MIN
The new starter with no memory
The basics of agentic development. What an agent is, why it fails, and the two habits that fix most of it. Arrow keys or click to move. Every quotation carries its source.
LESSON 01
Plan before code
The highest-value habit for a beginner, with a quiz and a recall drill.
REFERENCE
Runsheet
Speaker's card. Timings, what to cut, and the questions to expect.
REFERENCE
Glossary
Matt's vocabulary in his own wording. Twenty-two terms, each cited.

What is in this folder

PathHolds
MISSION.mdWhy this is being taught, and who the audience is.
RESEARCH.mdThe verified source material. Every quotation with its page, and a record of what was corrected.
RESEARCH-CLAUDE-CODE.mdThe official Claude Code documentation material. It carries the correction to slide 8: plan mode blocks edits, not shell commands.
CONTENT-BRIEF.mdThe deck script: the spine, the exact quotes, and what was cut from the earlier version.
RESOURCES.mdThe pages read in full, split by track, plus communities.
NOTES.mdTeaching preferences and design decisions.
slides.htmlThe session deck.
lessons/Numbered lessons. One tight habit each.
reference/Glossary and runsheet. Made to be revisited and printed.
assets/tokens.css shared by deck.css and lesson.css, plus the quiz component.
learning-records/Decisions that steer the next session.

Next sessions

Session 2, once this room has run agents for a month: the 24-skill catalogue, the pipeline, and the 7 phases. After that, the building-AI-apps track: evals and Evalite; the AI SDK and structured outputs; tools and MCP; guardrails. All of it is already gathered and verified in RESEARCH.md.

Want the next lesson? Ask me to teach it. I read the source pages before writing anything, and I record what I corrected.