The road to COMP4020: Anthropic comes to the party

title: "The road to COMP4020: Anthropic comes to the party" description: "COMP4020 has received $500k in Claude API credits from Anthropic for students to use in the Agentic Coding Studio course." tags: [comp4020]

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This post is part of a series I'm writing as I develop COMP4020: Agentic Coding Studio. See all posts in the series.

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As of yesterday I can finally announce that (along with my colleague Alex Potanin) I have received $500k in Claude API credits for the students to use in COMP4020 Agentic Coding Studio. As per the Anthropic press release:

The ANU School of Computing is also embedding Claude into new courses to train the next generation of Australian developers and scientists.

This is a no-strings-attached gift, for us to use as we see fit in figuring out how to train the next generation (and re-train the current one) of software engineers in this new world of agentic coding. It also means my worries about (not) being able to give my students the sharpest tools are now gone. Claude Code (and the models that power it) has been my daily driver for the last year, and I think it's now unquestioned that they're the leader in this space.

The one remaining "infrastructure" piece of the puzzle is where to develop the prototypes and how to put them on the open web (as per this post). If you work at a company that provides that sort of infra and want to be part of this, then get in touch.