Hi there,
The AI Developer Certification opens July 28. Put yourself on the waitlist for exclusive access, or keep reading and decide after.
Developer certifications have a reputation problem, and honestly, most of them earned it. Trivia with a timer, multiple choice you can memorize your way through, a badge that proves you studied the test instead of the work.
We can't dodge that reputation. Certification is literally our entire business.
So ours were built to be the opposite of that. The certificates.dev exams for Vue, Nuxt, React, Angular, JavaScript, and Laravel are hands-on, proctored, timed, and genuinely hard to pass. Thousands of developers have used them to stand out, from 680 companies including Microsoft, Salesforce, and NASA, some paying their own way and some sent by their engineering team.
You don't have to take my word for it. Developers rate those exams 4.6 out of 5 on TrustPilot, and TrustPilot notes on our own profile that we don't chase reviews.
The five-star reviews are the ones worth reading. One of them, from a developer more than ten years in and already certified in the technology, says the exam still taught them things they didn't know.
Experienced developers who found it hard and rated it five stars, that's the bar the new one has to clear.
The exam we're building now is for the AI Developer Certification, the credential for developers who direct AI instead of just using it. One question drove the whole design. What would a pass have to survive before a skeptical senior engineer respects it?
Here's where that question has taken the design so far:
- AI tools stay on during the exam. Banning them would test a job that no longer exists. Back in 2024, a developer who passed our Angular exam argued in their review that Google and coding LLMs should be allowed. That made sense to them then, and the world has moved that way since. The Angular exam is about knowing the framework and the syntax. This one is about knowing how to develop in today's world, so the tools come with you.
- Multiple choice won't be enough on its own. Picking a right answer proves you recognize it, not that you can make the call when nobody lists the options. The rest is open-ended scenarios with real ambiguity, and you defend your call in writing.
- Timed like real work. Enough room to think, not enough for the tools to brute-force an answer you couldn't defend.
- Being confidently wrong costs more than being honestly unsure. Exactly like production.
All of it proctored, vendor-neutral, and spread across the full web development lifecycle. Not one framework, not one tool.
Every one of those rules makes the exam harder to pass, and that's the part I'd defend hardest. Saying you're good with AI costs you nothing, which is exactly why it buys you nothing. Whatever makes a pass hard to get is the same thing that makes it worth having.
I lead the exam build, and you'll meet the full examination board before the exam ships.
If you don't pass the first time, that stays between you and us. No public record, nothing on your profile, and you can take another run when you're ready. The bar is high on purpose. Making the attempt safe is how we keep it there.
The certification opens July 28, and the waitlist hears everything first.
Join the waitlist in one click →
Alex Kyriakidis
CEO & Founder
certificates.dev
P.S. See you Tuesday, July 21 at 15:00 CEST, for How the Best Developers Grow With AI. Block it in your calendar if you haven't yet. And if any of those four rules sound wrong to you, the Q&A is where I'd like to hear about it.
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