The New Toolchain
Part I — The Shift
Engineering with agents is still engineering. What changed, what didn't, and the mental model the whole system builds on.
Draft stub — full lesson content will come from the verified book chapter.
Planned coverage:
- What actually changed: from code completion to task delegation
- The replacement myth: the marketing wave that said AI replaces engineers, why it softened, and what history says — tools replace only the people who don't update themselves
- Why "prompting" is the wrong frame and "directing" is the right one
- The wrong mindset in the wild: AI as a search engine, "fix everything with AI", an AI feature on every website
- The quality paradox: teams shipping faster with higher standards, and teams shipping slop
- The fast-junior-engineer mental model and trust boundaries (brief)
- The four-step loop this course hangs on: Plan, Delegate, Verify, Ship (brief)
- What this course is not: tool reviews, AGI takes, no-code shortcuts
Ends with an action checklist.