Anthropic Academy Courses

AI Fluency for Builders

This course empowers builders to develop AI fluency — increasing impact and efficiency while staying true to what it means to own the full arc from problem to shipped solution.

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About this course

At Anthropic, we believe that empowering people with AI, and ensuring that AI makes safe contributions to society, requires engaging with a wide range of human perspectives and experiences. Builders — product people, engineers, and makers — are uniquely positioned to leverage AI to amplify what they create—but only if they can approach it intentionally, with clear judgment and purpose.

This course helps builders develop practical AI collaboration skills through the 4D Framework (Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence). In this course, we’ll explore how the framework applies to real builder tasks—from framing a customer problem to shipping a product—and consider what it means to integrate AI responsibly across the full arc of building.

This course is built in partnership with CodePath, drawing on research with engineers and product builders about their actual needs, concerns, and aspirations for AI adoption.

The work builds on our AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations course, adapted specifically for the builder context where speed of implementation and the human role in judgment create unique considerations for AI collaboration.

Recommended prerequisites

This course lightly covers the foundational AI Fluency concepts. However, for deeper understanding, participants should complete AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations before beginning this builder-focused curriculum.

It is also recommended that learners have access to an AI tool for hands-on practice. Examples in this course will use Claude.ai, but any AI assistant will work.

Curriculum

  • Introduction and AI Fluency framework
  • Welcome to AI Fluency for builders
  • The 4D Framework
  • How AI works
  • AI capabilities & limitations
  • The 4D framework for builders
  • Delegation & the builder's toolkit
  • Description & building great things
  • Discernment for builders
  • Discernment for code
  • Discernment for user experience
  • Tying it all together
  • Stand behind what you build
  • Wrapping up
  • Closure & looking forward
  • Course quiz

About this course

At Anthropic, we believe that empowering people with AI, and ensuring that AI makes safe contributions to society, requires engaging with a wide range of human perspectives and experiences. Builders — product people, engineers, and makers — are uniquely positioned to leverage AI to amplify what they create—but only if they can approach it intentionally, with clear judgment and purpose.

This course helps builders develop practical AI collaboration skills through the 4D Framework (Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence). In this course, we’ll explore how the framework applies to real builder tasks—from framing a customer problem to shipping a product—and consider what it means to integrate AI responsibly across the full arc of building.

This course is built in partnership with CodePath, drawing on research with engineers and product builders about their actual needs, concerns, and aspirations for AI adoption.

The work builds on our AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations course, adapted specifically for the builder context where speed of implementation and the human role in judgment create unique considerations for AI collaboration.

Recommended prerequisites

This course lightly covers the foundational AI Fluency concepts. However, for deeper understanding, participants should complete AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations before beginning this builder-focused curriculum.

It is also recommended that learners have access to an AI tool for hands-on practice. Examples in this course will use Claude.ai, but any AI assistant will work.

Curriculum

  • Introduction and AI Fluency framework
  • Welcome to AI Fluency for builders
  • The 4D Framework
  • How AI works
  • AI capabilities & limitations
  • The 4D framework for builders
  • Delegation & the builder's toolkit
  • Description & building great things
  • Discernment for builders
  • Discernment for code
  • Discernment for user experience
  • Tying it all together
  • Stand behind what you build
  • Wrapping up
  • Closure & looking forward
  • Course quiz