Day 2: Guardrails You Build Yourself

Turn a working app into one you’d actually deploy.

You will work on:

• Mapping the \”certainty ladder\”: an instruction the agent might follow, versus a check that runs every time whatever wrote the code

• Choosing what earns your trust in a commit, then turning each one into an enforced check

• Building your own preflight check by working with your AI tool – the lasting skill is making guardrails, not being handed them

• Enforcing checks across the whole codebase, and holding the agent to your standard — no self-granted exceptions, no \”good enough\”

• Using an AI agent to review for design issues like duplicated logic and weak structure

• Optional advanced step: pointing an adversarial agent at your own app, as one more check you can build

Focus:
The guardrails are what let you ship code you didn’t read line by line — and you leave with a portable setup you can drop into any repository.