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Congratulations, you just made it through about half of our curriculum deck! 🎉

We've covered the basics of your future stack and are about to dive deeper in some more advanced topics.

One shift worth knowing about now: in a few cards the agent starts writing your code, and your job becomes directing and reviewing it. That is a bigger change than it sounds, and it's where a developer either becomes the person who makes an agent worth having — or a relay between their project lead and a chatbot, a meat proxy. Agentic coding basics is about being the first one.

A few things before you move on

• Add a reminder to your calendar: Read 5 repeating cards every morning
• Add a reminder to your calendar: Repeat the learnings of the last 10 curriculum cards every other monday
• Read the article " Parting advice from an older Software Engineer Show archive.org snapshot ". Try to memorize the key takeaways of 1-5 on the list.
• Watch Dominik's talk "Test-Led Development" (in our library) and try to apply his technique in the future