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 Duration 14 hours

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Comprehending Code through LLMs

  • Strategies for prompting LLMs to explain and walk through code
  • Approaching and navigating unfamiliar codebases and projects
  • Examining control flow, dependencies, and system architecture

Refactoring Code for Long-Term Maintainability

  • Detecting code smells, obsolete code, and architectural anti-patterns
  • Reorganizing functions and modules to enhance clarity
  • Utilizing LLMs to propose better naming conventions and design optimizations

Enhancing Performance and System Reliability

  • Identifying inefficiencies and potential security vulnerabilities with AI support
  • Recommending more efficient algorithms or alternative libraries
  • Refactoring I/O operations, database queries, and API interactions

Automation of Code Documentation

  • Generating function and method-level comments and summaries
  • Drafting and updating README files directly from the codebase
  • Producing Swagger/OpenAPI documentation with LLM assistance

Integration with Developer Toolchains

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

Managing Legacy and Multi-Language Codebases

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

Ethics, Quality Assurance, and Review Processes

  • Validating AI-suggested changes and mitigating hallucinations
  • Adopting best practices for peer review when utilizing LLMs
  • Maintaining reproducibility and adherence to coding standards

Summary and Path Forward

Requirements

  • Proficiency in programming languages including Python, Java, or JavaScript
  • A solid grasp of software architecture principles and code review procedures
  • Fundamental knowledge of the operational mechanics of large language models

Target Audience

  • Backend engineers
  • DevOps teams
  • Senior developers and technical leads

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