# AI Dev Tools Zoomcamp: AI-Native Software Engineering

A free, hands-on cohort course teaching developers to build, test, deploy and audit software with AI coding tools while keeping engineering discipline.

AI Dev Tools Zoomcamp is a free, practical course from DataTalksClub for developers and technical data professionals who want a disciplined workflow for AI-assisted software development. It is built around one core workflow: giving AI tools the right context, using them for the right job, reviewing what they produce, testing the result, and shipping with guardrails, rather than treating AI coding as unsupervised prompting.

Across the cohort, participants compare modern AI developer tools, build and deploy a full-stack application, operate it with observability and an agent-assisted incident response, and extend coding agents with the Model Context Protocol and reusable capabilities. It is explicitly not a prompt-engineering-only course and not about training models or building RAG systems; it assumes participants already write basic code in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript or a similar language, and it includes cohort deadlines, a community chat, peer review and certificate eligibility.

Website: https://courses.datatalks.club/register/ai-dev-tools/