You can usually feel when you're working well with AI. The task that would have eaten your afternoon is done by lunch, the code holds up, and the calls behind it were yours: which suggestions to keep, which to throw out, where to steer it next.

That's the mark of a strategic thinker and an engineer, someone who directs these tools and owns what ships instead of just running them. 

This has always been the line between the best developers and everyone else.

What's changed is how you show it. An agent writes the hard parts for everyone now, the code that used to take real skill by hand, so the work that once proved you were good doesn't prove much anymore.
The judgment that still sets you apart has no score, no benchmark, nothing a hiring manager or client can check. It just reads as work that went well.

But now there's finally a way to prove it

certificates.dev built an exam for exactly that judgment, the AI-Native Developer Certification. 

It works in any stack, and it turns how you direct AI into something anyone can verify in seconds.

The certification opens on September 15. Get on the waitlist now and you're among the first who can prove they're an AI-forward engineer, while everyone else is still just claiming it.

→ Join the waitlist

certificates.dev is the same team behind the official Vue certification, so they know what a credential has to do to mean something.

The waitlist also locks in your price. The preorder is the best it'll be from launch on, and it only climbs after, so getting in early is how you catch it. We wanted our community to hear it from us first.

And if you're wondering whether you're ready, you already are. If you've ever:

• Taken a half-specified ticket and worked out what it actually needed
• Pointed an agent at a messy codebase and gotten it to do the right thing
• Shipped something with AI you'd put your name on

That is the judgment the certification measures, and the waitlist just puts you first in line to prove it

You've got this,

The Vue Mastery Team