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Leading as a GenAI Engineer

Learning notes from a working backend and GenAI engineer (not a manager) on owning AI-assisted work, reviewing code, responsibility for GenAI features, incidents, communication, burnout and leading without a title. Every claim is sourced, and opinions are labelled.

  • 8 lessons
  • 107 min total
  • Quiz in every lesson

What you'll learn

  • Apply a written ownership standard to AI-assisted changes
  • Use AI coding tools within policy, with data hygiene and verification habits
  • Review human and AI-written code with a consistent checklist and SBI feedback
  • Ship GenAI features with evals, guardrails, human oversight and a system card
  • Run a blameless postmortem and escalate risk clearly
  • Communicate estimates, status and decisions as an individual contributor
  • Recognise and prevent burnout and know where to find professional help in India
  • Mentor, delegate to people and AI agents, and lead through writing without a title

Curriculum

8 lessons · 107 min

  1. 1. Owning What You Ship When AI Wrote It The one rule that underpins the course: if your name is on the pull request, you own it. Covers why AI amplifies existing habits, the comprehension debt problem, the 'can I explain every line' test, and a one-page ownership standard you can adopt today. Free preview Quiz 12 min
  2. 2. Using AI Coding Tools Well: Policy, Data, Verification, Skills A practical operating model for AI coding assistants: know your employer's policy, protect data, verify output as untrusted input, keep changes small, and keep your own skills growing. Pro Quiz 14 min (Pro lesson)
  3. 3. Reviewing AI-Generated Code: A Checklist Adapt Google's code review standard to AI output: same bar, smaller diffs, specific attention to security failure modes, tests that actually test, and review as the scarce resource. Pro Quiz 14 min (Pro lesson)
  4. 4. Responsibility for GenAI Features: Evals, Guardrails, Privacy, Limits A working engineer's checklist for shipping a GenAI feature responsibly using NIST AI RMF, OWASP, human-oversight ideas from the EU AI Act, India's DPDP Act, and a one-page system card. Pro Quiz 15 min (Pro lesson)
  5. 5. Incidents and Blameless Postmortems for AI Features How to respond when a GenAI feature leaks data, confidently lies or gets prompt-injected, and how to write a blameless postmortem that produces real fixes. Pro Quiz 12 min (Pro lesson)
  6. 6. Managing Work and Communication as an IC Estimates as ranges, status that surfaces risk, managing up, owning your 1:1, and writing decisions down, all for an engineer who is not a manager. Pro Quiz 13 min (Pro lesson)
  7. 7. Stress and Burnout: Recognise, Prevent, Recover, Get Help What WHO means by burnout, Maslach and Leiter's six areas of mismatch, how AI tools can add job demands, evidence-based recovery habits, and where to find professional help in India. Not medical advice. Pro Quiz 15 min (Pro lesson)
  8. 8. Leading Without a Title: Mentoring, Delegation, Writing A path I am reading about and early practising: leadership without a title through mentoring, sponsorship, glue work and writing, with honest limits on what I can claim. Pro Quiz 12 min (Pro lesson)

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Lesson 1 is free to read. Lessons 2 to 8 need a Pro pass, the same pass that unlocks the full interview prep. From Rs 199 for 1 year. One-time payment, not a subscription.