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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Code Analysis with LLMs

  • Strategies for prompting code explanations and walkthroughs.
  • Navigating unfamiliar codebases and projects.
  • Evaluating control flow, dependencies, and architectural design.

Refactoring for Maintainability

  • Identifying code smells, obsolete code, and anti-patterns.
  • Reorganizing functions and modules for greater clarity.
  • Leveraging LLMs to suggest naming conventions and design enhancements.

Enhancing Performance and Reliability

  • Using AI assistance to spot inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities.
  • Recommending more efficient algorithms or libraries.
  • Optimizing I/O operations, database queries, and API integrations.

Streamlining Code Documentation

  • Generating function and method-level comments and summaries.
  • Drafting and updating README files directly from codebases.
  • Creating Swagger/OpenAPI documentation with LLM support.

Toolchain Integration

  • Leveraging VS Code extensions and Copilot Labs for documentation tasks.
  • Embedding GPT or Claude into Git pre-commit hooks.
  • Integrating documentation and linting checks into CI pipelines.

Handling Legacy and Multi-Language Codebases

  • Reverse-engineering older or undocumented systems.
  • Performing cross-language refactoring (e.g., migrating from Python to TypeScript).
  • Demos of case studies and pair-AI programming.

Ethics, QA, and Review Processes

  • Validating AI-generated changes and mitigating hallucination risks.
  • Best practices for peer review when utilizing LLMs.
  • Safeguarding reproducibility and adherence to coding standards.

Wrap-up and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript.
  • A solid grasp of software architecture and code review methodologies.
  • Fundamental knowledge of how large language models operate.

Target Audience

  • Backend Engineers.
  • DevOps Teams.
  • Senior Developers and Tech Leads.

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