What is The AI-Augmented Engineer?

Whether you are a professional software developer looking to level up at your job or a nights-and-weekends tinkerer, you’ll find this useful for a few reasons.

AI is changing software engineering. The developers who adapt fastest will build better, ship faster, and stay ahead. Those who don’t? 😬

AI won’t replace software engineers—but engineers who use AI have an unfair advantage over those who don’t. If you want practical insights for a developer who is actively working in the industry and using AI every day, you’re in the right spot.

These emails will help you learn how to integrate AI into your workflow, write better code, and become an better developer.

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What do paid members get?

If you’re really serious about using AI to grow your career, consider becoming a member. This gets you access to the full newsletter, including some of my favorite parts:

• Case studies on how developers are using ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Copilot and other AI tools to augment their work.

• Detailed step-by-step guides outlining how YOU can use AI in your software engineering role to ship better products even faster.

• Reports detailing what’s new in AI. All signal, no noise.

Monthly subscriptions are cheaper than going out to lunch once a month, and yearly subscriptions are even cheaper.

Here a few well-loved member-only articles you’d unlock right away.

• The ultimate overview of AI tools for work

• Ten rules for effective prompt engineering

• Building a feature with Claude Code

• Making sense of LLM context

Expensing the newsletter

Some subscribers expense this newsletter to their learning and development budget. If you have such a budget, here’s an email you could send to your manager.

Hi [name of manager],

I’d like to expense a subscription to The AI-Augmented Engineer. It’s a regular newsletter for software engineers and engineering managers on using AI to be more effective at their job.

The newsletter publishes plenty of content on tools like ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex. I’ve been following along for some time and joining as a paid member will unlock full access to deep dives on these tools.

It costs $80/year, and I’m sure I’d get more than that out of it.

Let me know if you’re fine with this.

Thanks,

[Your name]

Wondering who I am?

I’m Jeff Morhous, a senior software engineer working in healthcare. I mostly make web apps, but I’ve been using AI tools for a while now to build all sorts of stuff.