Tactical Agentic Coding
Master the tactics of Agentic Coding. Scale FAR beyond AI Coding and Vibe Coding with advanced Agentic Engineering so powerful that your codebase runs itself.
Official AGENTIC CODING COURSE by @IndyDevDan
AI CODING IS
NOT ENOUGH
Here's what most engineers miss:
- AI Coding was just the beginning (Phase 1)
- Vibe Coding is the lowest hanging fruit
- 95% of all codebases are now outdated and inefficient
- IMPORTANT: You, the engineer, are the bottleneck — not the models - not the tools - not the agents
While everyone sits "In the Loop" prompting back and forth with powerful agentic coding tools, 90% of the true value of AI Agents like Claude Code lies untapped. Engineers are wasting their exponential potential because they lack the information needed to use Agentic Coding at peak performance.
The Problem Is... Most of the tech industry is still building as if AI Agents don't exist. Why? Because most engineers don't understand that the old ways of engineering, and even AI Coding, are completely outdated. With the creation of AI Agents (with Claude Code leading the way), a new engineering role has emerged, and in order to scale beyond AI Coding and vibe coding, you must begin your evolution into this new role.
What's the new engineering role? Take a quick look at the URL you're on right now. I've been holding this URL for years, while building the skills and beliefs needed for this transition. Hoping that one day, the right compute and the right tooling would emerge. Today, it's finally time. You and I can now become Agentic Engineers.
Agentic Engineering isn't about models, prompting, or agents — it's about composing the old world of software engineering with the new world of agents to achieve exponential scales of engineering. It's about stepping out of the loop entirely. It's about building systems that build systems. It's about encoding your engineering excellence into your agents with templates and ADWs so they ship on your behalf while maintaining your engineering standards, while you're AFK.
With Tactical Agentic Coding - TAC, you'll begin your transition into this new role of engineering to unlock exponential scales of engineering for you, your team and your customers.
Here, in TAC, you'll think hard and learn to step out of the loop.
Let's start with a simple question that guides everything you'll accomplish in TAC...
What if your codebase could ship itself?
NOT FOR BEGINNERS
If you're not actively shipping production code, close this tab now. TAC is built exclusively for the top 20% of engineers who are ready to push their engineering abilities to the next-next level. Watch this to qualify.
What will you learn?
In Tactical Agentic Coding, my mission is to transform you into an engineer THEY CAN'T REPLACE.
How will we accomplish this massive goal?
We'll do this by committing to two career-changing decisions:
Let go of the old ways of engineering
Master the new best tool for engineering: Agents
You'll master Agents by internalizing 8 Tactics of Agentic Coding that elevate you into an engineer that BUILDS THE SYSTEM - THAT BUILDS THE SYSTEM.
The 12 Leverage Points of Agentic Coding
Master the in-agent and through-agent leverage points that maximize your agents' autonomy. Learn to stack standard out, types, tests, architecture, other leverage points for inevitable agentic success.
Out of the Loop Engineering
Progress from "In the Loop" prompting to fully autonomous "Out of the Loop" systems. There's repeat work you're doing right now that you don't have to be IF you have the right agent pipeline.
Teach Your Agents Your Way
Encode your best engineering practices into your agents so they ship how you would ship. Transform vague prompts into production-ready specifications automatically.
AI Developer Workflows (ADWs)
Build the highest level of agentic abstraction by combining deterministic code with non-deterministic agents. Create workflows of agents that automate entire classes of engineering work autonomously.
Measure Your Agentic Success
Track your progression with four critical agentic coding KPIs. Instead of guessing if you're improving as an agentic engineer, KNOW you're improving.
Prioritize Your Agents
Progress toward the North Star of agentic coding where your codebase literally runs itself. Shift your focus from the AI coding your application layer to building the system that builds the system.
BUILD SYSTEMS THAT
BUILD SYSTEMS
Success in Phase 2 of the Generative AI age requires more than AI Coding and Vibe Coding. Here's the trick: Don't build your codebase — build your agent pipeline that builds your codebase. These aren't just tactics, they're the foundation of a new engineering paradigm where your best engineering practices are encoded once and executed infinitely by fleets of specialized agents. Inside of Tactical Agentic Coding you'll learn the exact steps to build the system that builds the system. This will give you a (massive) asymmetric advantage in the age of agents.
STOP CODING
START
TEMPLATING
The irreplaceable engineers of tomorrow aren't typing code. They're commanding compute. Building pipelines of AI Agents that ship features with their best practices. While everyone else is stuck "In the Loop" prompting back and forth, wasting their time and potential. With TAC, you'll learn to stop coding and start encoding your engineering into your agents for repeat success. Instead of writing prompts (yourself or with agents), you'll learn to encode your engineering best practices into your agents. Your agents will then use your guide to write and execute plans, docs, tests, and anything you need. This new type of prompt will lead you to massively scaling up your plan and review velocity, the two constraints of agentic coding.
MASTER THE SCALE
OF THE CORE FOUR
Tools have been around for a while, but only with powerful agentic coding tools like Claude Code can you now exploit the scale of the Core Four: Context, Model, Prompt, and Tools. We're talking long-running (minutes to hours), self-correcting, self-validating, self-documenting agent pipelines that run on your behalf. This enables something incredible, you can stop working IN your codebase and start working ON your AI Agents. How well you build and deploy agents that operate your application determines your success in Phase 2 of the Generative AI age.
WHAT'S IN THE COURSE
TACTICAL AGENTIC CODING
The core 8-lesson 8-tactic course that accelerates you toward Agentic Engineering.
Shift from AI Coding to Agentic Coding: Learn the essential ideas to shift from the old ways of engineering to the new. It's not about what we can do anymore it's about what we can TEACH our agents to do.
8 Tactics of Agentic Coding: Each lesson offers you key next generation engineering tactics you can use to guide your daily engineering. Each tactic helps you pull the future of engineering into the present.
Build The System That Builds The System: Master the meta-engineering approach where irreplaceable engineers of today and tomorrow operate.
No AGI, no ASI just pure, boots on the ground Engineering with Agents:
We're not waiting for another model, tool, or agent. Throughout each lesson, we're putting our boots on the ground and using the best tool for the job of engineering for today's problems.
AGENTIC HORIZON
Upgradable extended mastery lessons for engineers ready to push beyond the big ideas in Tactical Agentic Coding with more topic-specific lessons (Claude Code, Context Engineering, Custom Agents). 3 available now, 3 more coming based on what YOU VOTE for.
Elite Context Engineering: The R&D Framework for context window mastery across 12 techniques
Agentic Prompt Engineering: Master the 7-level hierarchy from simple prompts to self-improving meta prompts
Claude Code SDK Mastery: Build custom agents for your domain, your problems, your edge cases
3 Now 3 Later (You VOTE for what comes next):
With Agentic Horizon you get every lesson, present and future, available to you upon release. You also get to vote on what you want to see in the upcoming unreleased future lessons.
In Tactical Agentic Coding you'll have access to eight lessons that accelerate you from AI Coding to Agentic Coding. First we set the stage in our two beginner lessons, then move to three intermediate and conclude with three advanced lessons. You also have access to a separate extended lesson set: Agentic Horizon. There you'll find three additional in depth lessons and three unreleased lessons you get to vote on.
Tactical Agentic Coding
Core 8 Lessons
Hello Agentic Coding - Become the Engineer They Can't Replace
Discover why your hands and mind are no longer the best tools for writing code. Make the hard, but important decision to let go of the old ways of engineering to adopt the new. Set the stage for learning the new way to engineering with agents and the core four.
Tactical Agentic Coding
The 12 Leverage Points of Agentic Coding
Step inside your agent's context window and see your codebase through its eyes. Master the Core Four and eight additional leverage points to maximize not what you can do, but what your agents can do for you.
Tactical Agentic Coding
Success is Planned: The 80-20 of Agentic Coding
First came prompts, then came plans and what comes next will push your ability to hand off work to your agents even further beyond. Learn a powerful leverage point of agentic coding that enables your agents to ship with you and your team's engineering best practices.
Tactical Agentic Coding
AFK Agents: Let Your Product Build Itself
Move beyond 'in the loop' agentic coding with a single agent with the PITER framework. Transform problems into solutions with a single prompt. Replace generic, 'built for everyone' expensive cloud tools with your own superior pipeline of agents that knows YOUR codebase and YOUR domain specific problems.
Tactical Agentic Coding
Close The Loops: More Compute, More Confidence
Close the loop(s) and let the code write itself. Transform brittle agent workflows into self-correcting systems with strategic feedback loops. Build 'Closed Loop Prompts' that ensure your agents correct their own work so you don't have to.
Tactical Agentic Coding
Let Your Agents Focus: Agentic Review and Documentation
Reach a critical milestone in your agentic coding journey with specialized Review and Documentation agents. Learn the crucial difference between testing and reviewing your agent's work.
Tactical Agentic Coding
ZTE: The Secret of Agentic Engineering
Understand the North Star of Agentic Coding where your codebase ships itself. Progress from in loop, to out loop, to ZTE.
Tactical Agentic Coding
The Agentic Layer
Learn the one meta-tactic to rule them all. The single idea you need to become irreplaceable in phase 2 of the Generative AI age.
Tactical Agentic Coding
Agentic Horizon
Extended Mastery Lessons
Elite Context Engineering
A focused agent is a performant agent. The context window is your agent's most precious resource - ephemeral, limited, and critical to success. Master context engineering through the R&D Framework.
Agentic Horizon
Agentic Prompt Engineering
The prompt is the fundamental unit of engineering in the age of agents. Every prompt you create becomes a force multiplier - one well-crafted prompt can generate tens to hundreds of hours of productive work.
Agentic Horizon
Building Domain-Specific Agents
Create specialized agents tailored for specific domains and use cases. Learn to build agents that understand your business logic, domain constraints, and specialized workflows for maximum effectiveness.
Agentic Horizon
Your Vote Decides
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Your Vote Decides
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Your Vote Decides
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INDY
DEV
DAN IS BACK
FOR PHASE 2
IF YOU DO THIS RIGHT
IT WILL CHANGE
EVERYTHING
2,000,000+
Views on YouTube
Democratizing GenAI
Sharing every Monday for Years
from GPT-3.5 to Aider to Claude Code
15+ Years
Shipping to production
Early adopter of GenAI
Creator of Principled of AI Coding
8k+ Stars
On Github with 2k+ Forks
Proven Valuable AI Engineering
TONS of free engineering resources on GitHub
After unlocking foundational AI coding for thousands of engineers with Principled AI Coding, the game of engineering has changed again. You and I now have the opportunity to wield a new engineering primitive, one that was revealed by Claude Code. The Agent Architecture. Phase 2 isn't about bigger prompts or faster AI coding. It's about wielding agents to step into a new role of software engineering: One who builds systems that build systems.
BUILT FOR
ENGINEERS
THAT
SHIP
Thank you to the incredible engineers who shared their kind words. We've come a long way since the days of GPT-3.5 and Aider. These reviews and comments come from real engineers right from the
and from thousands of engineers who've taken the Phase 1 AI Coding course:
"Elevating software development practices beyond day-to-day coding to focus on strategic enterprise value. Bridges the gap between technical implementation and business outcomes"
"I've never met such a talented, original, and inspiring engineer as IndyDevDan. This course is probably the most value-dense lessons you will ever take"
"This is a rip-off. There's so much value in TAC that Dan needs to 5x the price"
"Phenomenal program. Iteratively builds from new fundamentals to mind-blowing insights. Finally made clear the 'How' of building agents for me"
"Goes so far beyond anything I have seen from anyone else. This is probably the most immediately beneficial and impactful course I have ever taken"
"Dan has an uncanny way of piecing all parts of the puzzle coders are faced with putting together. He is rigorous, has gone through the gauntlet and came out the other side. Just what I needed, a guiding light in the AI fog!"
"Uncontrolled agents will eat up your context quicker than a seagull at a beach picnic. Can't wait for the new course."
"I've taken over 40 certifications and courses, and this one had the most substantial impact on how I work."
"The undisputed king of agentic coding. All hail."
"Thanks a lot and congratulations on such a complete, very solid, generalist course. Two big footholds on my way of convincing me of the future of software engineering."
"Dan is amazing at conveying complex information in a clear easy to understand way. Any engineer could learn from his videos even without the AI aspect."
"The future is more about high quality documentation, more planning, and allowing the AI to do the coding. I found this course extremely valuable."
"I was honestly surprised to see how Dan has actually given words to some of the concepts I was actually using in my daily coding. Hands down, my best buy for 2025!"
"Dan, you are amazing. You are right at the frontier, man. RESPECT. Your content is loaded with meaning which I think a lot of people will not appreciate how much game you dish out."
"I was pretty proficient with my AI coding skills but felt like I was stuck in a rut. This course really changed my thinking perspective and my angle of approach!"
"As someone who spends a significant amount of time using various AI tools for coding, this is hands down the best course I've come across."
"This's been the best packed program I've ever been to. You are at the frontier of what's happening, and I admire your clarity, focus and reasoning soundness."
"Next level thinking! Most people don't know what this means. Thank you!!"
"Model, Prompt, Context - it will guide my thinking for whats to come. Thanks to @indydevdan for the great content and youtube channel."
"I actually started working with prompt specs a few months ago, but having your template moved my results to the next level."
"Best AI course so far! Really show how to do things, concretely changed my workflow and upgraded it, it's real gold."
Tactical Agentic Coding Course
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8 Tactics of Agentic Coding to become an irreplaceable engineer
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Built for Mid/Senior+ engineers ready to command fleets of agents
Use the best Agentic Coding tool for the job: Claude Code
Master durable tactics you use to hand off TONS of work to your agents
(Bonus) Private repositories to accelerate your Agentic Engineering
(Bonus) Extend Principles of AI Coding used by thousands of engineers
(Bonus) Measure your growth with concrete Agentic Coding KPIs
(Bonus) 100+ Bonus Assets, Links, Documentation, and Tips
(Upgradable) Ability to purchase Agentic Horizon extended lessons
(Upgradable) Vote on upcoming Agentic Horizon extended lessons
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Official AGENTIC CODING COURSE by @IndyDevDan
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