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Cohort 1
Cohort 1 pitch

Agentic Engineering.

An online cohort course. Six projects. One creative portfolio at the end.

Ship AI-built software that survives a real user. Six micro-projects. One portfolio. Audited by peers. Demoed online.

The problem

Vibe coding shipped a lot of broken products.

4,000
fake users fabricated by Replit's agent in a sandbox
48 days
thousands of Lovable projects publicly exposed
150M+
MCP package downloads exposed by April 2026 RCE class

Prompts are not the bottleneck. Reading what the AI shipped is.

The market gap

No major course teaches non-engineers to read what the AI shipped.

End A · crowded
Maven, Lovable, Replit, Vibe Coding 101. Prompts only, no fundamentals.
End B · crowded
Anthropic, Vercel Academy, Build UI. For senior engineers who already ship.

The middle is empty. That is where 2026 hiring is concentrated. That is our territory.

The thesis
You can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding. Andrej Karpathy, Sequoia 2026

Typing got cheap in 2025. Reading, judgment, and audit did not. This course is built around that asymmetry.

Audience & format

~15 early coders. 8 lectures.

Schedule
Twice a week, evenings. ~4 weeks. All sessions online.
Pacing
Concept, interactive, live in editor, audit, wrap. Repeat.
Prereq
Already writes code (HTML/CSS/JS or equivalent). Terminal + Git basics.
Output
6 micro-projects + 1 creative portfolio capstone. All public.
The 8 lessons

Six projects, three phases. One portfolio at the end.

  1. 01Day OneSetup
  2. 02Reading What AI ShipsP01
  3. 03First Audit LoopP02
  4. 04Specs Are SourceP03
  5. 05Loop EngineeringP04
  6. 06Defensive SecurityP05
  7. 07Offensive SecurityP06
  8. 08Demo Day (online)Final
Inside a lesson

No videos. Everything interactive or live in Cursor.

Each 2-hour lesson is structured as named beats inside the platform itself.

  • Cold open. A question or an incident.
  • Concept. Short and concrete.
  • Interactive. Predict-vs-measure, compare, quiz.
  • Switch to Cursor. Nika builds it live, class follows.
  • Switch back. Audit and reflect.
  • Wrap. Takeaways and one piece of homework.
Capstone. The portfolio.

Six projects. One creative portfolio. Submitted live.

30%
Portfolio creativity. A clear point of view across the six.
25%
Peer-audit writeup of another student's portfolio.
20%
Completeness. All 6 projects shipped, audits visible.
15%
Adversarial validation on a chosen project.
10%
Portfolio polish. Load time, mobile, typography.

No other AI-coding course in 2026 makes a peer-audited creative portfolio the bar. That is the bet.

Companion skill

A free Claude skill, public the day cohort 1 starts.

Enforces the 8 practices in every agent session. Refuses spec-less work, scans for env-var leaks, audits MCP servers, prints the stop rule.

terminal
$ npx skills add nika/agentic-engineering

Every install is a small ambassador for the course.

Why me

Nika. Growth engineer, building since 14.

nikusha.com · GitHub · X

Growth engineering is product psychology plus engineering. Every AI-powered builder I work with repeats the same eight habits. This course teaches them in one program.

The ask

Cohort 1 opens when we agree on the date.

Cohort
~15 early coders, application-screened for prereqs.
Logistics
Twice-weekly online, including the final Demo Day.
Price
Cohort sets tuition. Companion skill stays free.
Open after
Cohort 2 in spring 2027 if cohort 1 ships.
Thanks

Questions?

Live platform, syllabus, and the free skill are wired up. Happy to walk through any of them.

Nika.