You stopped writing the code.You didn't stop being the engineer

It's a supervised examination with ID and biometric check-in, 135 minutes of questions and pure execution, in a live sandboxed codebase, scored collaboratively by AI examiners and human experts, with the final call on every result belonging to the human.

There's no question bank to leak, because every sitting generates fresh. The one thing you can't do here is pass on recognition alone.

A hands-on AI certification for software developers. You direct an AI agent through a live codebase, and every prompt you write is part of your answer.

It measures the judgment you wrap around AI, what you send it in to do, what you accept, and what you push back on, in whatever stack you already work in. It isn't proof you can use the tools, it's proof you can direct them.

The tools change every week. What we certify doesn't. You're proving how well you direct AI, and that skill is the layer under whatever model or framework ships next, so a pass still means something the week after the next big thing drops.

In a field moving this fast, a current result is worth more than an old one, not less. A certification dated this month is the one signal a resume can't fake, proof you're sharp now, in the tools that exist now.

And we keep it current. As the field moves the exam moves with it, and your certification includes free re-assessment and updates, so what you hold never falls behind. The pace of change is the reason to certify now, not the reason to wait.

No. Competence is the gate, not tenure. The exam proves judgment at whatever level you're exercising it, and the people on our waitlist span the full range of experience almost evenly.

You're required to. Directing it well is the entire thing being examined.

It's the division of labor on your certificate, said plainly.

Three AI examiners read every answer independently, from different model families, at a depth no human panel could afford. A board of working developers holds the final signature, and a human expert reviews every fail before it's issued.

The machines bring the scale, the people put their names on the result, and neither alone would be worth printing on paper.

Not a number. A six-domain profile with receipts, every scored claim linked to the exact transcript moment it came from, including where you caught the planted issue and where you missed one. A calibration index shows whether your confidence matched your accuracy.

There's also a hiring-manager view of the same scores, written as plain trust statements like "can be trusted to review agent-written changes before they reach production", built to be read in thirty seconds by someone who wasn't in the room.

A fail gets the same document, which makes it a retake study plan rather than a rejection letter.

The issuer is the recognition.

• 10,000+ developers and 680+ companies already certify with certificates.dev
• Our exams hold 4.6 on Trustpilot from named, verifiable reviewers, across 100+ reviews
• The Vue track is officially endorsed by Vuejs.org, with Evan You signing every certificate himself
• Every track was built and reviewed by named experts, Google Developer Experts, Microsoft MVPs, and open-source creators

The AI certification adds a score report an employer can actually read, plain trust statements with the evidence linked underneath.

Three ways in. The exam on its own, the exam plus the self-paced training built for it, or that plus the three-week Live Bootcamp.

Exam only is the credential and the prep to pass it, the exam, the prep guide, and the Discord. Exam plus Preparation adds the training platform, a free retake, and an unlimited trial exam, and it's the plan most people should pick. The full program adds the Live Bootcamp with Alex G on top.

Community access, the playbook "Prove Your AI Skills", and your onboarding roadmap land the day you join, not the day the platform opens. The prep guide is live now, and the self-paced training platform is open. Chapter one is available, with the rest landing through the end of September.

On the full program, the Live Bootcamp with Alex G runs Mondays and Fridays for three weeks, kicking off Sept 14, and the supervised exam opens in October.

Three weeks live with Alex Garrett-Smith, Technical Education Lead at BitterBrains and Examination Board Lead for this certification. It comes with the full program.

Six live sessions, Mondays and Fridays across three weeks, kicking off Sept 14. About four hours live per week, plus roughly an hour a day between sessions. Every session recorded and yours to keep.

The Bootcamp is not a one-time cohort. Your place is access to every Live Bootcamp we run, so you can join each one live or watch it back from your dashboard whenever you like. This cohort runs Sept 14 to Sept 28 and is already under way, so join it live now or catch the sessions on recording.

About 80% of it is hands-on, drill decks, sandbox labs, real codebases, trying the moves yourself under feedback until the judgment is actually yours.

It runs from the moment you buy until 30 days after the exam launches, not 30 days from purchase. Buying now, before the exam is live, carries no risk, and you decide after you've seen the real thing, not before.

Sitting an exam ends it. That's the rule we've always run, you can't take the exam and then ask for the money back.

To request a refund, email team@certificates.dev. A refund happens from a single message.

Every plan except the exam-only door includes a free retake, and the pass assurance makes it automatic. Sit the exam, miss, and your retake is already yours, no case to make.

Failing doesn't trigger the money-back guarantee, it triggers this instead, and it holds whether or not your refund window is still open. A miss is covered either way.

The score report you get is the study plan for the second attempt. The exam is designed to be passed by capable engineers who prepare.

No. Nothing shows on your profile, and there's no page anyone can look up to see that you sat the exam and didn't pass. The attempt is kept private so the bar can stay high.

3 years from your purchase date, the same as our other certifications. There's no rush, you can sit whenever you're ready inside that window.

Yes. A US sticker price isn't the same real cost everywhere.

If you're browsing from one of about 134 eligible countries, you'll see a regional pricing option on the pricing cards, applied by default across every plan. Turning it off reverts to the global rate for comparison.

The discount is tied to sitting the exam from that same eligible country, not just buying from it.

Yes. Seats can be added directly on the pricing cards and the price adjusts as your team grows, with volume rungs from 5 seats.

For a larger rollout, procurement requirements, or anything a toggle can't handle, email team@certificates.dev and we'll work it out with you directly.