How long is AI Coding Workflows?

8 hours of recorded sessions across 6 modules, taken at your own pace. 5 of the modules end in work Nova grades.

Is AI Coding Workflows live or self-paced?

Self-paced. The sessions are recorded by an instructor who does this work, and Nova, Square 1's AI tutor, grades every checkpoint and project against a rubric you can read.

How much does AI Coding Workflows cost?

A$45 for the founding intake, paid once; the standard price is A$90. It is the same price in every country. Founding students keep their founding price on any second programme.

What will I build in AI Coding Workflows?

3 deployed projects: One feature, three ways, A review checklist and A justified week. Each is graded against a published rubric and kept on a record an employer can open at /verify.

What skills does AI Coding Workflows teach?

Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and code review. It prepares you for roles such as Software engineer and Engineering lead.

Does AI Coding Workflows guarantee a job?

No. No placement rate is published because there are no graduates to count yet. What you leave with is graded, deployed work on one record an employer can open and run, and a hiring plan you keep with the career agent.

On demandRecorded by an instructor, graded by Nova

AI Coding Workflows

Name: AI Coding Workflows
Price: 45.00 AUD
Availability: PreOrder

Cursor, Claude Code and Codex side by side: when to use which, and how to stay in charge.

AI Coding Workflows is a self-paced online course: 8 hours of recorded sessions across 6 modules, with 5 graded by Nova, Square 1's AI tutor. The founding price is A$45, down from A$90. Start any time and keep your own pace.

Taught with

ClaudeChatGPTCursorGitHub CopilotGitHub

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Module by module

Module 1The landscape and the trade-offs60 min
Module 2Cursor for in-editor work90 min · graded
Module 3Claude Code for multi-file tasks90 min · graded
Module 4Codex for delegated work90 min · graded
Module 5Review discipline60 min · graded
Module 6Project: choose the tool per task90 min · graded

recorded hours: 8
modules, in order: 6
deployed projects: 3
graded checkpoints: 5

Who it is for, and what you receive.

Engineers using Cursor, Claude Code or Codex who want to know which tool to reach for and how to stay in charge.

Before you start

You write software in any language.

Skills

CursorClaude CodeCodexcode review

1
The recorded sessions
Taught by an instructor, taken in order at your own pace, yours for twelve months.
2
Graded work after every module
Exercises and projects marked by Nova against a rubric you can read, with what you did well and what to fix.
3
The projects
Deployed and graded, each one on your record with its repository.
4
Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use, run with the career agent.
5
The record and the certificate
Every grade at square1ai.com/u/{handle}; a credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify.
6
Nova as your tutor
Help that is about your actual work, because it has read all of it.

The content plan, module by module.

8 recorded hours from an instructor, taken in order at your own pace. Nova grades the work at the end of each module.

In-editor, terminal, cloud
Cost, speed, control
Where each fails

The projects.

Each is deployed and graded by Nova against a rubric you can read before you start.

Project 1
One feature, three ways
Build the same small feature, such as CSV export for a fictional clinic's appointment list, in Cursor, Claude Code and Codex from one shared spec and test suite. Then compare time, cost, control and where each tool went wrong.
You hand in
- Three implementations on branches
- Shared test suite
- Comparison write-up
The rubric requires
Each implementation passes the same tests.
Project 2
A review checklist
Agents write plausible code that hides small mistakes. Write a review checklist for agent diffs, apply it to real agent output from your recent work, and record what it caught and what you rejected.
You hand in
- Review checklist
- Caught examples with diffs
- Rejection notes
The rubric requires
The checklist catches a seeded mistake in an agent diff.
Project 3
A justified week
Work a normal week on your own codebase and, for every task, choose Cursor, Claude Code or Codex before you start. Log the choice, the reason, what happened, and whether you would choose the same again.
You hand in
- Work log per task
- Tool justifications
- Short retrospective
The rubric requires
Every task names its tool and why.

What you can do at the end.

You know which tool to reach for and why, with three graded projects on your record.

1
Explain the trade-offs between in-editor, multi-file and delegated agent tools.
2
Build the same feature three ways and compare the results honestly.
3
Apply a review discipline that catches agent mistakes.
4
Choose the tool per task and justify it.

Roles this prepares you for

Software engineerEngineering lead

No placement rate is shown, because there are no graduates to count yet. The roles above are what the projects are built for.

Your record at the end.

Every exercise and project is graded by Nova against a rubric you can read, and every grade is kept on one page an employer can open and run. This is what the programme writes to it.

Graded, line by line: Nova reads every submission against the brief and the rubric and returns a score, what you did well and what to fix.
Module by module: Each module ends in graded work; the next opens when you are ready, on your own schedule.
Nova remembers: Help is about your actual work, because the tutor has every submission and every failed exercise of yours.
One page an employer can run: Every grade and project at /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.

Record, AI Coding WorkflowsExample

Project
One feature, three ways
Each implementation passes the same tests.
Graded
Project
A review checklist
The checklist catches a seeded mistake in an agent diff.
Graded
Project
A justified week
Every task names its tool and why.
Graded
Every module
5 graded checkpoints
Each module ends in work Nova grades line by line against a rubric you can read.
Graded

The entries, not the grades: those are yours to earn. The page lives at /verify and an employer needs no account to open it.

5 entries, at your own pace. Reserving a spot holds the founding price.

Pre-order

How we help you find a job.

Proof, not a certificate: the projects you deployed are the thing you show, and the tools below are yours to use.

The course booklet

The whole plan on a few pages: the parts, the projects, the gates and the price. We email it to you.

Get the booklet

1
Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use: target roles, the gap map, the proof to send, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome. You run it with the career agent.
2
A record an employer can run
Your graded projects on /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
3
The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
4
The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.
5
A path to the live cohort
If you want the instructor, the gates and the hiring sprint, the bootcamp on the same subject is one waitlist away.

Questions people ask.

About AI Coding Workflows, answered from the plan on this page.

Founding spots are open. Hold yours.

Recorded by an instructor who does this work, graded by Nova. Spot holders hear the opening date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm.

You know which tool to reach for and why
Three graded projects on your record

A$45~~A$90~~