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AI Voice Coach with ElevenLabs

In this workshop we build Luma, a voice coach for rehearsing difficult conversations. You talk, and the coach walks you through Nonviolent …

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Tailor Your CV for AI Engineering Roles

In this workshop we take a CV that's not focused on AI engineering roles and make it more relevant. We build a pipeline where: a renderer …

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careers cv ai-engineering +1

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The Agentic Loop: Building a Mini Agent Framework from Scratch

We start with a fixed RAG pipeline that searches a course FAQ once and passes the results to the model. That works until the search misses.…

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ai-agents agentic-loop function-calling +1

Build an Agent Evaluation Framework with OpenAI Batch and Flex

We take the FAQ agent from the first deployment workshop and build an evaluation framework around it. We leave the agent unchanged, so all …

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Selecting a Portfolio Project: How to Choose What to Build

Picking a portfolio project is where most people stall. There are too many options, and the default move is to grab a technology you want t…

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portfolio career job-search +1

Build and Deploy an FAQ Agent with Vercel AI SDK and Gateway

We take the FAQ agent from the earlier deployment workshops and ship it on Vercel. The same agent answers Data Engineering Zoomcamp questio…

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Build and Deploy a Full-Stack App with AI Coding Assistants

In this workshop we'll build the classic Snake game as a full-stack web app, end to end. A coding assistant does most of the work. We'll: …

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vibe-coding full-stack fastapi +2

Deploy an FAQ Agent with Cloudflare Workers and Vectorize

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,…

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Deploying Vector Search with SQLite

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…

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Serving Open Models with vLLM on RunPod

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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vllm runpod open-models +2

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Building an Agent with Guardrails

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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ai-agents guardrails agent-safety +2

Solving a Real AI Engineer Take-Home Assignment Live

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

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Build Your Own Search Engine

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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search rag llm-engineering +1

Deploying an Agent to AWS Lambda

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…

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Build a Documentation RAG Agent with Search Tools

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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rag ai-agents llm-engineering +2

Personal Brand for Developers: A 30-Day LinkedIn Challenge

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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personal-brand linkedin writing +1

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…

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Build a Coding Agent with Tools, Skills and PydanticAI

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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ai-agents llm-engineering agent-systems +1

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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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ai-agents llm-engineering agent-systems +1

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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…

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ai-agents llm-engineering agent-safety +2

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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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ai-agents data-engineering temporal +2

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Build a Course FAQ Agent 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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ai-agents llm-engineering agent-systems +3

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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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ai-agents coding-agents django +2

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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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ai-tools coding-assistants comparison +2