Super-Charge Software Development with AI
As teams adopt AI, speed often increases—but judgment and ownership quietly disappear. I help teams integrate AI without losing agency, design discipline, or responsibility.
Most developers are treating AI like Stack Overflow with a chat interface. They’re generating code fast—and drowning in technical debt. The teams that are thriving? They understand code craftsmanship first. Extensibility, test-first thinking, clean architecture. When you bring AI into that foundation, everything changes. I teach the principles that make developers true craftsmen—with or without AI. Then I show you how to collaborate with AI the way you’d work with your best senior developer.
How I Work
When you hire me, you don’t get a faceless training program — you get me, working alongside you and your team.
AI Collaboration Labs: Experience Working with AI at a New Level. Half-Day Hands-On AI Automation Coaching for Leaders, Agile Teams, and Knowledge Workers. Sessions on AI automation, prompt engineering, and much more! Private sessions are available for teams up to 20 participants. Discover AI Collaboration Labs.
Software Developer Training: Turn juniors into seniors. Agile Analysis and Design Patterns teaches the extensibility, test-first thinking, and clean architecture that most developers never learned in school. 16 hours live. Your team writes better code—with or without AI.
To learn more, check out my Software Developer Essentials curriculum.
One-on-One Coaching: Dive deep into AI with my coaching programs, either as a one-off for some quick advice or as a bi-weekly or weekly series. I can help with all aspects of AI adoption, from program design to delivery. Schedule a free consultation with me to learn more. You will be surprised by what we can accomplish together in 90 days.
Meet the Passionate Programmer
Hi I’m David Scott Bernstein and welcome to the Passionate Programmer. I’ve spent the last quarter century of my life helping over 10,000 professional software developers at the world’s top companies build software that is straightforward to extend and verify. These are the very skills developers must possess to teach AI how to build maintainable code. Integrating AI into the Agile software development process has many challenges and the potential for great rewards. Let me guide you through this new territory.
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