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10xDevs is the largest AI-Native Software Engineering program in Poland: 6,700+ graduates in a year and a half, 44% of them seniors with 8+ years of experience, and 1,500 submitted certification projects. At the heart of the course is 10x Workflow - a structured system of working with an AI agent, from idea to deployment (system map). Below are the five values that participants across three editions point to most often - each with evidence, a participant voice and a link to the documentation.
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A coherent system of working with an agent, not a pile of prompts - you take it to your company.
SECTOR 02Better and calmer - with your understanding of the system intact, without cognitive debt.
SECTOR 03Legacy, other people's repositories, DDD - territory other AI courses do not touch.
SECTOR 04A benchmark and your own evaluations instead of marketing - a return on every token.
SECTOR 05Three defensible projects and a certificate - 1,500 submitted certification projects.
"A good plan does not need its author present. It only needs people who will take the next step - and a step that can be taken."
- a record from the Vault, in the spirit of the Seldon PlanA complete chain of working with an agent: from idea, through plan and implementation with tests, to review and deployment - all tied together by 10x-cli, the tool that installs the course skills (ready, repeatable procedures for an AI agent) in your environment. Participants value it as a coherent system, not a pile of prompts - and like the Seldon Plan from "Foundation", it keeps working without its author: at your company, with no course behind your back.
A complete chain of working with an agent: from idea, through plan and implementation with tests, to review and deployment - all tied together by 10x-cli, the tool that installs the course skills (ready, repeatable procedures for an AI agent) in your environment. Participants value it as a coherent system, not a pile of prompts - it keeps working at your company, with no course behind your back.
The best evidence is what graduates do after the course: they bring the workflow into their companies and build their own tools on top of it - skill forks tailored to the way they work, team distribution repositories, code review pipelines built on the course method.
"The 10xDevs workflow is brilliant. I just finished the course and I am already rolling out changes at work and building another side project."
- 3rd edition participant
"I built a workflow that analyzes 10xDevs lessons and skills and generates forks of them tailored to the way I work."
- 3rd edition participant
leave the course with a repeatable process, not a list of tricks - a system that works the same in a certification project and on Monday morning at work.
"We circled above the ocean for decades. The library of Solaristics grew faster than our understanding - until, in the end, we were only describing our own reports."
- a note from the Solaris research stationThe market sells AI as pure acceleration. But code generated without structure soon becomes like the ocean of Solaris: alive, productive and less and less comprehensible to the people circling above it. A structured workflow operates on four levels at once: faster (less manual work), better (tests and verification at every stage), calmer (a predictable process instead of chaotic prompting) and with your understanding of the system intact.
The market sells AI as pure acceleration. A structured workflow operates on four levels at once: faster (less manual work), better (tests and verification at every stage), calmer (a predictable process instead of chaotic prompting) and with your understanding of the system intact.
That last level neutralizes the quiet price of working with AI - cognitive debt, the moment you stop understanding your own system. The work produces architecture reports, repository maps and domain diagrams you have to be able to defend. You remain an architect and reviewer with your own judgment, not someone rubber-stamping the model's output.
"The biggest progress I see after the course is not that AI wrote code for me faster, but that I started building my own system of working with AI."
- 3rd edition participant
"The biggest value was working out a repeatable process: from research and planning, through deliberate architectural decisions, implementation, review and quality automation."
- 3rd edition participant
turn "AI writes for me" into "AI works inside my process" - with quality growing at every stage and full understanding of what is being built.
"The tech-priest censes the machine and recites the litany of activation. The machine works - but no one aboard remembers why anymore."
- rites of the Adeptus MechanicusIn the forty-first millennium technology is worshipped, because no one can repair it anymore. Legacy without a map works exactly the same way: "we do not touch that file", deployment rituals, tribal knowledge instead of understanding. The workflow covers the full range of work with such code: mapping an unknown repository, researching a specific feature, planning a refactor and analyzing code along Domain-Driven Design (DDD) lines. This is territory almost no AI course touches.
Most developers do not write applications from scratch - they work in someone else's years-old code. The workflow covers the full range of work with legacy: mapping an unknown repository, researching a specific feature, planning a refactor and analyzing code along Domain-Driven Design (DDD) lines. This is territory almost no AI course touches.
The core workflow skills - research → plan → implement → review - work in any repository, regardless of the stack and the project's complexity. They will get you through 90% of programming challenges, and you will handle the rest with specialized skills, which you will learn to build during the course.
"I got the most value out of module 4. It changed how I approach analyzing existing code and showed me how to make architectural decisions based on evidence, not intuition."
- 3rd edition participant, on module 4 (Legacy - working with existing code)
"The lessons on DDD and on the code review pipeline hit a very real need of mine - the materials are staying with me as a reference point."
- 3rd edition participant, working with teams on large repositories
stop treating AI as a "greenfield-only" tool - the biggest return is where the code is years old and no one remembers why.
"Physics does not accept declarations. If the result of an experiment disagrees with the promise, it is not the universe that lies - it is your model."
- a researcher's journal from the Crisis Era, "The Three-Body Problem"In "The Three-Body Problem" survival depends on measurement, not on faith in someone else's declarations. An AI budget works exactly the same way: the course gives you a concrete overview of what is genuinely worth paying for - which subscriptions make sense and for what, how to pick a model based on the 10xBench benchmark (a comparison of models on real programming tasks, run as part of the course) and your own 10xEval evaluations for your team's specific tasks.
The course gives you a concrete overview of what is genuinely worth paying for: which subscriptions make sense and for what, how to pick a model based on the 10xBench benchmark (a comparison of models on real programming tasks, run as part of the course) and your own 10xEval evaluations for your team's specific tasks.
You test models on your own tasks and know when it pays to use open local models. The result: predictable cost and a return on every token, in a company budget and a private one alike.
10xBench is actively followed by participants as a source of model-choice decisions - the topic keeps coming back across many course chat threads.
- an observation across three editions
make model and subscription decisions based on measurement, not marketing - and know when a local model is enough.
"Each pilgrim carries their own tale, and the tale is their passage. Only those who have walked the whole road reach the Time Tombs."
- custom of the pilgrimage to HyperionAs in "Hyperion": the road is what counts, and the weight is carried by the tale of the one who walked it. The certificate stands on three real, defensible projects, not on a knowledge test: a working MVP (Builder), an architecture report (Architect) and a CI/CD pipeline extended for the team's needs (Champion). Three stages of the pilgrimage - each with hard evidence in a repository, not an a/b/c answer.
The certificate stands on three real, defensible projects, not on a knowledge test: a working MVP (Builder), an architecture report (Architect) and a CI/CD pipeline extended for the team's needs (Champion). Each with hard evidence in a repository, not an a/b/c answer.
On top of that comes DemoDay, where the best present their work and win awards in a community vote. By July 27, 2026, participants had submitted 1,500 certification projects - real applications answering personal, family, team and company needs. Participants describe the effect as a real transformation and treat the effort involved as part of that value.
"I submitted the project, architect and builder. I am as happy as a kid - it was five weeks of really intense work around children, a full-time job and a vacation in between. The satisfaction is incredible."
- 3rd edition participant
"Thank you for the course - without it I would still be wandering in the fog."
- 3rd edition participant, after building an application from scratch, step by step, following the workflow
finish the course with three tangible proofs of skill - a working application, a defended report and a pipeline your team actually uses.
Each of the five nuggets comes down to the same mechanism: a structured workflow with artifacts on disk - instead of prompting by feel. System, calm, legacy, costs and certification are five faces of one method that 6,700+ graduates have practiced across three editions.
"The biggest progress I see after the course is not that AI wrote code for me faster, but that I started building my own system of working with AI."
- 3rd edition participantthis page is the digest - the full system lives on the other 10x Workflow pages. The best starting points are below.
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