Tech Buddy AI-Driven Development School Opens October 2026 Enrollment
Tech Buddy targets working engineers with one to five years of experience, a group the school says has few systematic options for learning AI-driven development beyond beginner courses and one-off tool tutorials.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Mukuil Inc. is recruiting two students for the October 2026 opening of Tech Buddy, a school for engineers with one to five years of practical experience who want to learn AI-driven development. Applications close September 21, 2026. The first two applicants pay 199,000 yen instead of the regular 398,000 yen. The curriculum runs 71 sections across about 168 hours, covering Claude Code, spec-driven development, RAG design, and security.
The school's curriculum runs 71 sections across about 168 hours, split into six phases. Phase 0 covers Claude Code basics and AI-driven development patterns, Phase 1 builds two ToDo apps, Phase 2 makes a meeting-minutes summarizer with LLM integration, Phase 3 adds RAG to a search app, Phase 4 works through OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, and Phase 5 runs a mock project from requirements to delivery and maintenance.
Students get weekly one-on-one sessions with a working engineer mentor, four per month, for 12 sessions in the three-month course, 24 in six months, or 36 in nine. The school cites a METI estimate that Japan will be short up to 790,000 IT workers by 2030, and argues the missing skill is judging and managing AI-generated code rather than writing it.
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