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Hi Boss,

I'd like to use some of our training budget to join The Software Factory Engineer, a two-week cohort taught by Ray Amjad.

Right now, writing code with Claude Code is fast, and reviewing it is the bottleneck. Someone still has to read every pull request an agent opens, click through the app to check it actually works, and catch regressions after we deploy.

Because a faster, smarter model only produces more diffs for us to read, we need automated checks around the agents before their code reaches a person.

Without those checks in place, we keep running into the same problems:

Engineers spend hours reading agent diffs instead of building.
Tests pass while the actual feature is broken, because we lack agentic testing.
An agent fixes a bug in one file and reintroduces the same mistake in another file the next week.
Customers hit broken flows in production before our own tooling catches them.
Token spend climbs without a clear way to measure what shipped cleanly.

What the cohort covers.

Across about 6 hours of recorded lessons a week, plus live office hours, I'll learn how to:

Set up our repo with invariants and decision records so agents follow our existing patterns before touching code.
Write testable specs that agents can be verified against automatically.
Build verification loops where one agent writes the code and a separate model tests it against the real app, database and browser.
Use small, fast models to check each step and enforce codebase rules that standard linters miss.
Run a swarm of agents to bug bash a branch before a human reviews the PR.
Add a merge gate policy that auto-merges safe changes and flags risky ones for human review.
Keep agents monitoring production after a deploy.

It's built around Claude Code, so it fits directly into how we already work.

What this changes for our team.

Less time reviewing diffs, because low-risk PRs arrive already verified against the app and risky ones are flagged.
Every bug becomes an automated check, so agents don't repeat the same mistake across the repo.
Agents catch broken flows in production before customers report them.
I'll document the setup and share it, so the rest of the team can use it on our repos.

About the instructor.

Ray Amjad is a widely respected engineer and educator. He has taught thousands of engineers, does consulting for Fortune 500 companies, and is an ex-YC technical founder.

The investment.

It's a one-time payment per seat, and the current price is on the page below. That includes a receipt with our company details, a certificate of completion, and a 30-day money-back guarantee starting from day one of the cohort.

Here's the details page: https://www.agenticcoding.school/cohort#buy

Let me know if this looks good to expense, or if you want any more info. If it's easier, I can pay and expense it myself.

Thanks,

[Your name]