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Courses

Artificial Intelligence Dependence in Engineering Teams

IntermediateFree5 modules · 15 lessons · ~2 min

About this course

A practical course for engineering managers on where automation bias, skill decay and eroding verification ability actually show up in a team: code review, on-call incidents, and the hiring and promotion pipeline. You will learn concrete workflow, staffing and measurement changes that keep judgement current, and the narrow, honest role a governance platform plays in supporting them.

What you'll learn

The Manager's View of the Problem

Why This Is a Management Problem, Not Just an Individual One
Automation Bias in Code Review: When "The Assistant Wrote It" Lowers Scrutiny
Skill Decay in a Team That Ships With Assistants

Where It Shows Up

Review Quality as Volume Rises: The Arithmetic of Attention
On-Call and Incident Response When the System Was Generated, Not Written
The Shrinking Pool of People Who Can Judge Whether Output Is Right

Hiring and Growth

Hiring and Onboarding: What Happens When Juniors Skip the Learning Curve
Career Ladders and Leveling in an Assisted Engineering Org
Interviewing and Promotion Signals That Still Mean Something

What Actually Mitigates This

Verification-First Workflows: Making Review Do Its Job Again
Deliberate Practice for Engineers: Keeping the Underlying Skill Alive
Measuring Understanding, Not Just Output

Process and Governance

Designing On-Call and Incident Process for an Assisted Codebase
Policy: Where Human Sign-Off Actually Belongs
Inventory, Guardrails and Audit Trails: The Narrow Role of a Governance Platform

01The Manager's View of the Problem3 lessons

Why This Is a Management Problem, Not Just an Individual One
Automation Bias in Code Review: When "The Assistant Wrote It" Lowers Scrutiny
Skill Decay in a Team That Ships With Assistants

02Where It Shows Up3 lessons

Common questions

How much does Safeguard Academy cost?

Nothing. Every course, exam, and certificate on the catalog is free — including retakes. All you need is a free Safeguard account.

What are the prerequisites?

None. The flagship course, Safeguard Certified Practitioner, is a beginner-level course — basic familiarity with how software is built helps, but every exam question is answerable from the lessons themselves.