NC State's AI Hub for Science invites you to a hands-on workshop which introduces a disciplined approach to software development with AI coding agents. Participants will learn how to move beyond “vibe coding” by using AI throughout a structured development lifecycle: brainstorming and refining requirements, creating durable specifications, planning work in small testable increments, directing and monitoring coding agents, and verifying their output through testing, review and adversarial analysis. 

Participants will not only learn to generate code faster, but to specify intent, manage context and constraints, evaluate evidence, and retain human ownership of architecture, risk and the final decision to accept software. The workshop also presents agent skills, showing how reusable instructions and workflows can extend and customize an agent’s capabilities.