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InfoQ Opens Enrollment for New AI-Assisted Engineering Online Certification Program

InfoQ's new certification signals a shift: AI-assisted engineering is now a skill senior engineers need to master—not just adopt.

Reporting by InfoQ AI/ML 1 min brief
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Why it matters

As agentic coding moves from pilot to production, the profession is formalizing what it takes to safely deploy and govern agents in real codebases. This certification targets the exact skill gap: not prompting, but guardrails and failure detection.

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  1. Five-week online certification for senior engineers and architects

  2. Target: engineers already running coding agents against production code daily

  3. Curriculum focus: agent governance (what agents are allowed to touch) and failure detection

  4. Published August 2026 — agent-assisted coding now seen as a formal discipline requiring certification

  5. InfoQ launched a five-week online certification for AI-assisted engineering

  6. Target audience: senior engineers and architects already running coding agents on production code daily

  7. Curriculum focus shifted from prompting technique to agent governance and oversight (what agents are allowed to touch, error detection)

  8. Program enrollment now open

  9. Published August 2026

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Publisher excerpt: InfoQ has opened enrollment for the InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program, a five-week online certification program for senior engineers and architects who already run a coding agent against production code daily, where the open questions have moved past prompting into what the agent is…
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