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NoteMAR 24, 2026 ยท 1 MIN READ

Two days, hundreds of engineers, a curriculum months in the making. Teaching forced me to crystallize my own thinking on what it means to work agentically.

Teaching AI is the fastest way to sharpen your own thinking.

BY ALEX TONGยทTAGGED Everyone

๐Ÿ“ฃ ๐Ÿ“ฐ We just wrapped an Engineering-wide AI training โ€” two days, hundreds of engineers, a curriculum months in the making.

The question driving it wasn't "how do you use this tool?" but "what does it mean to work agentically and how do you build the instincts for it?"

๐Ÿ‘ท Building my modules on decomposing problems and executing large-scale migrations using Claude Code forced me to crystallize my own thinking on this. There's a difference between knowing how to do something and knowing how to explain why it works, and teaching it turned out to be the most useful thing I've done to sharpen my own thinking here.

๐Ÿซถ Proud of this team and grateful for the chance to contribute to something this substantive!


Follow-up: A month later I did it again, but for 500 engineers โ€” Teaching CLAUDE.md at EngX โ†’.

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