Workshops

Hands-on Workshops

Multi-page workshops with a recorded session, runnable code, and a step-by-step writeup. Watch the recording, follow the tutorial, and ship something real.

Workshop Free

Build Your Own Search Engine

May 14, 2026

We build a search engine from scratch over DataTalks.Club Zoomcamp FAQ documents, starting with TF-IDF text search, adding cosine similarit…

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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, strip out FastAPI, and swap it for a custom AWS Lambda r…

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 workflow. The knowledge base is the Evidently AI documen…

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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

Coding Agent with Skills (2026 update)

Apr 21, 2026

We build a coding agent from scratch: tool calls, an agentic loop, a skills system that loads reusable instruction files on demand, and a f…

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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 from the prerequisite wor…

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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 add checks that keep the agent on topic, block unsafe response…

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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. The workshop starts by downloading and indexing YouTube transcripts…

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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

A newer, combined version of this workshop is available: Coding Agent with Skills. We build a small project bootstrapper for Django: a codi…

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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 them to help build the same small app: Snake in React. The session is a comparison, not a single produ…

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