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Understand AI-Assisted Software Development: Become a 10x Developer

Learn to think like a Software Developer while using AI to exponentially increase your effectiveness and efficiency as a developer. Build real knowledge and use strategic workflows to plan, generate, review and improve production-ready code.

5 hours 0 projects 129 + lessons

Rated 4.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot

Rated 4.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot

8 Days

Average time students take to complete this course.

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Taught by: Tony Alicea
Last updated: August 2026
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What you'll learn

  • The mental model to level-up your Software Developement skills in the AI Age
  • Plan software features with AI assistance and guide AI through structured implementation workflows
  • Build and author reusable Agent Skills with engineered context for more efficient work
  • Review and correct AI-generated code while avoiding dependency, security, and quality pitfalls

AI can accelerate software delivery, but they do not understand what you need or your systems in the way an experienced engineer does. They generate plausible output from incomplete context - and plausible is not good enough to accelerate in your job (or just to keep it!).

This course develops the technical judgment required to use AI safely across the real software development lifecycle.

First you’ll understand the fundamentals by examining the mechanics behind language models, including tokenization, embeddings, vector spaces, attention, inference, and confabulation. From there, you’ll learn how to actually plan software features and guide AI through structured implementation workflows using AI-generated code, agent skills, and more.

The focus is production work: architectural planning, incremental implementation, repository integration, debugging, testing, code review, security, and maintainability. You’ll learn to define constraints, expose relevant system context, verify assumptions, detect subtle failures, and keep engineers accountable for the final result.

What's the bottom line?

This course is not about making you just code along without understanding the principles so that when you are done with the course you don’t know what to do other than watch another tutorial... No!

This course will push you and challenge you to go from a Junior Software Devleoper to someone that excels at using AI so much that you're treated like a Senior Software Developer 💪.

Who You Will Learn With

You're getting more than just a course

Our instructors, TAs, Mentors, Alumni, and fellow students go above and beyond to help guide you and ensure you're on the right path to achieve your goals. Our private ZTM Discord server is a key factor in taking your skills, confidence and career to the next level.

Course curriculum

To make sure this course is a good fit for you, you can start learning for free right now by clicking any of the PREVIEW links below.

13 sections129 lessons5 hours total length

Section 0: Introduction

6 lectures · 2min
6 lectures · 2min

Introduction·1:41

1:41
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Setup: You and Your LLM·1:01

1:01
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Exercise: Meet Your Classmates and Instructor

PREVIEW

Understanding Your Video Player

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Set Your Learning Streak Goal

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Course Resources

PREVIEW

Section 1: A Proper Mental Model of LLMs

13 lectures · 48min
13 lectures · 48min

Section 2: Context "Engineering" and Management

11 lectures · 25min
11 lectures · 25min

Section 3: Prompt "Engineering"

8 lectures · 15min
8 lectures · 15min

Section 4: Planning Process

8 lectures · 28min
8 lectures · 28min

Section 5: Agent Skills

32 lectures · 1hr 24min
32 lectures · 1hr 24min

Section 6: Implementation

7 lectures · 20min
7 lectures · 20min

Section 7: Integration

5 lectures · 20min
5 lectures · 20min

Section 8: Verification and Quality Control

6 lectures · 18min
6 lectures · 18min

Section 9: The Pitfalls of AI, LLMs

12 lectures · 40min
12 lectures · 40min

Who is Zero To Mastery Academy for?

You'll fit right in if:

You're struggling to make progress using free tutorials that aren't giving you the structure or clear path to achieving your goals.
You don't want to learn alone. You want personalized feedback, support, and motivation from instructors and mentors and want to be part of a supportive community of like-minded individuals.
You want to learn by doing. You're excited to embrace the struggle of making mistakes that comes with building real-world projects you'll be proud of.
You're sick of outdated & boring tutorials. We pride ourselves on having the most up-to-date (and fun!) courses in the industry so that you're not wasting your time and only learning what matters right now.
You can't afford to spend $8,000+ on over priced bootcamps and colleges. We got you. We'll help you go from zero to hired for less than the cost of a cup of coffee a day.
You're ready to embrace AI. You're excited to go beyond basic prompt tricks and hacks and learn the latest AI tools and skills.

We're not for you if:

You're just going to watch the lessons and take no action. Our courses are all about getting your hands dirty with exercises and putting what you're learning into action by building fun and impressive real-world projects.
You're not ready to invest in yourself by taking the time to deeply learn a topic or you're just looking for the cheapest way to learn.
You don't think fundamentals matter anymore because AI can do everything for you. Understanding the fundamentals and how things really work will always be important.
You think AI is going to replace you and think there's nothing you can do about it. Well, if you keep wasting time not learning AI tools & skills, you're probably right. Or you embrace them, and 2x your productivity (and your income).
You think influencers on YouTube are the experts and would rather watch superficial videos that get a lot of views to learn. Our courses are taught by actual industry experts.

Meet your instructor

Your instructor isn’t just an expert with years of real-world professional experience. He has been in your shoes. He makes learning fun. He makes complex topics feel simple. He will motivate you. He will push you. And he will go above and beyond to help you succeed.

Tony Alicea

Hi, I'm Tony Alicea!

Tony has 25 years of experience ranging across technologies such as AI, React, UX design, testing and much more. He believes strongly that deeply understanding any topic allows you to properly learn it and quickly overcome real-world problems.

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Tony Alicea

Developer and AI Strategist

Frequently Asked Questions

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

  • Some prior coding experience (any language) is recommended

Who is this course for?

  • AI Developers who want to learn deep, fundamental knowledge that will help them build robust applications while AI writes the syntax
  • Students who are interested in going beyond all of the other "beginner" AI coding tutorials and courses
  • Developers that want to be in the top 10% at using AI for software development at their company
  • Bootcamp or online tutorial graduates that want to go beyond the basics
  • Developers who want to learn and master AI

Do you provide a certificate of completion?

We definitely do and they are quite nice. You will also be able to add Zero To Mastery Academy to the education section of your LinkedIn profile as well.

Can I use the course projects in my portfolio & resume?

Yes, you’d be crazy not to! We help you build really impressive projects and all projects are downloadable and ready to use the minute you join. They are also customizable so you can make them your own.

Many of our students tell us the projects they built while following along with our courses were what got them interviews & jobs! Because they were able to build the projects themselves, they could confidently explain and walk through their work during the interview.

You know what that means? Job offer!

Are there subtitles?

Yes! We have high quality subtitles in 6 different languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Hindi.

You can even adjust the text size, color, background and more so that the subtitles are perfect just for you!

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