Hey Reader,

M.academy's upcoming Adobe Commerce Developer Professional Cert-Prep course is almost complete!

We're in the final stretch, and have made a ton of updates to the course platform as well. This includes making upcoming lesson percentage visible in the progress bar, and better highlighting the current lesson you are on (so you don't get lost):

This app is already in production. We haven't really officially announced it yet (and are still working on completing it), but 60+ University students have already logged in and watched a bunch of lessons.

By building this app, I've learned a TON about how to develop something super high-quality (and very fast) with AI and can't wait to share what I've learned. I still can't believe that AI wrote 95% of the code in this app 🤯.

Development will never be the same again.

However, I don't consider what I've been doing as "vibe coding". It's way more nuanced, and I think I've only been able to build something like this so quickly because of my background and experience in development and architecture.

I haven't tested this coding methodology with Magento yet, as I've been heads-down building this course platform with Laravel -- but will shortly.

I'd love to cover some content around this, so if you want me to uncover something that may be a mystery to you, ...please reply back and let me know.

I'm really focused on shipping the course this month, but you can check out the free PHP 8.4 Core Features playlist with some specific callouts below 👇

P.S. Oh and the cert-prep course and all lessons will be fully published later this month, so the wait will soon be over 🤗

Keep coding,

Mark Shust Teacher / M.academy Say hi 👋 on LinkedIn & YouTube​

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