AI Development for Junior Engineers

Hosted by Faisal Abid

Sat, May 10, 2025

4:00 PM UTC (2 hours)

Virtual (Zoom)

Free to join

130 students

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What you'll learn

Set Up Your AI-First Dev Environment

Learn how to configure Cursor, Claude Code, and your terminal to create a productive, AI-augmented workflow.

Choose the Right Model for the Right Job

Understand when to use Claude, GPT-4, or others based on real engineering tasks—not just vibes.

Prompting That Works

Go beyond “try this” prompting. Learn techniques that generate secure, maintainable, and context-aware code.

Write Secure, Scalable Software with AI

Get best practices for using LLMs safely—from API design to data privacy—so your code can go to prod, not just the demo.

Solve Problems with Deep Research

Use ChatGPT and Gemini deep research search tools, and technical resources to uncover the best solution.

Why this topic matters

AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code are becoming standard—but most junior engineers either rely on them too naively or underuse them. This workshop will help you go from AI-curious to AI-capable, using these tools to write secure, scalable code. We’ll cover prompting, model selection, and practical workflows—a key step in leveling up your dev skills in a world where AI is part of the stack.

You'll learn from

Faisal Abid

Founder at Interstellar Labs (Head of AI Bitstrapped, Google Developer Expert)

Faisal Abid is the Founder of Interstellar Labs and a Google Developer Expert with over 15 years of engineering experience. He’s served as CTO at multiple startups including Eirene, Bitstrapped and Zoom.ai, where he led teams building AI-powered systems used in fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce.


Faisal has architected large-scale, secure systems on Google Cloud Platform and helped engineering teams adopt AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code in real-world production environments. He believes AI-assisted development is a game-changer for engineers—but only if used with discipline and care. In this workshop, he shares practical, hard-won insights to help junior developers write better code, faster, without losing sight of what makes good software great.

Previously at

League
Shopistry
Vendasta
Rakuten
BrainStation

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