Week 2: Everyday Use
Day 12: AI for Coding and Data
Goal
Use AI as a coding assistant, not an unsupervised engineer.
Learn
AI can explain code, generate examples, write scripts, debug errors, suggest tests, and translate between languages. It can also invent APIs, ignore security, or break existing behavior. The safe workflow is small changes, clear requirements, version control, tests, and review.
Behind the scenes
AI tools are products wrapped around models, data, prompts, retrieval, safety systems, and user interfaces. The better you understand the wrapper, the better your results get.Example
Example: in a real workflow, this idea helps you decide how to use AI carefully. For this lesson, connect the goal to one task you already do: use AI as a coding assistant, not an unsupervised engineer..
Practice
Give a chatbot a small error message and ask for diagnosis, then ask what information it would need before changing code.
Checkpoint
Checkpoint
You understand why AI coding output must be tested.