Dilly Skills · For your role
Software Engineer
Ship 10× more with AI as your pair.
AI can write boilerplate and tests faster than you can. Engineers who win pair tightly with it and own systems, architecture, and outcomes.
What AI is taking
Rote coding, boilerplate, tutorial-level tasks
Your moat
System design, code review judgment, production-grade debugging, owning outcomes
Stay ahead
Skills to learn, starting now
The shortlist we'd recommend to someone in your role. Short enough to finish, broad enough to matter.
- 1Prompting for code generation
- 2AI pair-programming workflows
- 3System design fundamentals
- 4Observability and debugging production
- 5Writing for humans (docs, reviews)
- 6Architecture for AI-augmented systems
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Videos picked for software engineers
A mix drawn from the cohorts that feed this role. Start anywhere.
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