Let Your Company Pick Up the Tab
The average company spends $1,200 per employee on training each year.source A short email to your manager is all it takes.
Why This Is an Easy Ask
Managers Love This
You're literally asking to get better at your job. That's the easiest "yes" your manager will give all quarter.
Don't Pay Out of Pocket
Most companies have training budgets that go unspent every year. Somebody's going to use that money, and it might as well be you.
Pays for Itself Fast
One afternoon of shipping faster with Claude Code or Codex covers the cost. The rest is pure upside for your team.
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Hey [Manager's name], I've been exploring a class on agentic coding. It covers the two leading agentic coding tools, Claude Code and Codex, and goes deep on the workflows that separate people who prompt one agent from engineers who build systems around them: loops that ship features on their own, verifiers that catch errors automatically, running fleets of agents in parallel, and context engineering. I'd love to enroll, and wanted to check if there's any training or professional development budget that could cover it. Here's the class: https://www.masterclaudecode.com/#pricing A few things I'm most excited to learn: - [e.g. "running agents in parallel loops"] - [e.g. "building verifiers that gate quality automatically"] - [e.g. "context engineering for our codebase"] I think this would directly speed up my day-to-day work, shipping more without babysitting every diff. Happy to buy it myself and expense it if that's easier. They also have team plans if anyone else is interested: https://www.masterclaudecode.com/#pricing Let me know what you think. [Your Name]
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Got the green light? Jump to pricing. Want to loop in the whole team? Share the team page with your manager.