Hands-on Workshops

Workshop Free

Full-Stack Vibe Coding

Jun 23, 2026

We build the classic game Snake as a full-stack web app, end to end, with a coding assistant doing most of the work. We work through it in …

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Workshop Basic or above

Cloudflare Workers Vectorize Agent

Jun 17, 2026

We take the FAQ agent from the earlier deployment workshops and move the whole online path to Cloudflare. The Worker serves the UI and API,…

Workshop Basic or above

Deploying Vector Search with SQLite

Jun 9, 2026

We take the FAQ agent from the End-to-End Agent Deployment workshop and change how it finds answers. That agent searched the FAQ with minse…

Workshop Basic or above

Serving Open Models with vLLM on RunPod

Jun 2, 2026

Serving an open-source model yourself means renting a GPU and running an inference server on it. In this workshop we take a quantized DeepS…

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Workshop Free

Building an Agent with Guardrails

May 26, 2026

AI agents are useful because they can call tools and act on user requests. That same flexibility makes them easy to steer off topic. In thi…

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Workshop Basic or above

Solving a Real AI Engineer Take-Home Assignment Live

May 19, 2026

We solve a real AI engineer take-home assignment live. The product is a small investment coaching bot that answers public-company research …

Workshop Free

Build Your Own Search Engine

May 14, 2026

We build a search engine from scratch over DataTalks.Club Zoomcamp FAQ documents. We start with TF-IDF text search, then add cosine similar…

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Workshop Basic or above

Deploying an Agent to AWS Lambda

May 5, 2026

We start from the FastAPI service we deployed to Railway in the previous workshop. We strip out FastAPI and swap it for a custom AWS Lambda…

Workshop Free

Introduction to RAG and Agents

May 4, 2026

We build a RAG system over real documentation and evolve it into an agentic search flow. For the knowledge base we use the Evidently AI doc…

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Workshop Basic or above

Personal Brand for Developers: A 30-Day LinkedIn Challenge

Apr 28, 2026

Most of what you do as a developer stays private. You learn a tool, fix a bug, or choose one library over another. Then you move on, and th…

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Workshop Free

Coding Agent with Skills (2026 update)

Apr 21, 2026

We build a coding agent from scratch, starting with tool calls and an agentic loop. We add a skills system that loads reusable instruction …

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Workshop Basic or above

End-to-End Agent Deployment

Alexey Grigorev Apr 21, 2026

We build a FAQ chatbot from notebook to production. You start with a Jupyter notebook that calls the OpenAI Responses API with a single sea…

Workshop Free

Skills.md from Scratch: Build a Skill-Driven Coding Agent

Alexey Grigorev Jan 16, 2026

A newer, combined version of this workshop is available: Coding Agent with Skills. We start from the coding agent in the prerequisite works…

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Workshop Free

Building Safe AI Agents with Guardrails

Alexey Grigorev Jan 6, 2026

We start with a DataTalks.Club Data Engineering Zoomcamp FAQ assistant. Then we add checks that keep the agent on topic and block unsafe re…

ai-agents llm-engineering agent-safety +2

Workshop Free

Build a Production-Ready YouTube AI Agent with Temporal

Alexey Grigorev Dec 16, 2025

We build a deep research agent over the DataTalks.Club podcast archive. We start by downloading and indexing YouTube transcripts. Then we t…

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Workshop Free

Building AI Agents with MCP, PydanticAI and OpenAI

Alexey Grigorev Sep 1, 2025

We build a course FAQ assistant from the bottom up. First we expose a plain Python search(query) function to the OpenAI Responses API. Then…

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Workshop Free

Building a Coding Agent: Python/Django Edition

Alexey Grigorev Aug 14, 2025

For a newer, combined take, see Coding Agent with Skills. We build a small project bootstrapper for Django, a coding agent that takes a pla…

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Workshop Free

AI Coding Tools Compared: ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Lovable and AI Agents

Alexey Grigorev Jul 21, 2025

We compare AI coding tools by asking each to help build the same small app, Snake in React. We compare the tools rather than ship one polis…

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