There are two stories about AI and engineering right now, and both of them are wrong.
The first story is that AI writes the code, so engineers don't need to understand it anymore. The second is that AI is a productivity layer bolted onto the same job description, so nothing about how we train engineers should change.
We think both stories miss the point.
The skill is judgment, not typing
A senior engineer in 2026 doesn't out-type a model. They out-decide it. They know when to accept a suggestion, when to reject it, when to push it harder, and — most importantly — how to defend the result to a reviewer who wasn't in the room.
Codritium is built around that loop. Every challenge on the platform is paired with a replay: the conversation, the false starts, the decision points. You don't just submit code. You submit a record of how you got there, and you defend it.
What we're not
- We're not a bootcamp.
- We're not LeetCode with a chatbot.
- We're not an AI marketing platform with a
courselabel slapped on top.
What's coming
Over the next several months we'll publish:
- The full challenge catalog across debugging, security, refactoring, and feature build.
- The first cohort of certifications.
- The State of AI Engineering 2026 — our first longitudinal benchmark of human + AI engineering pairs across 12 task categories.
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