For Engineers · 1-day classroom intensive

AI Engineering Workshops Adelaide

A full classroom day on the entire AI-assisted engineering stack, in the centre of Adelaide. Agentic coding tools compared, prompt engineering for production code, evals, MCP and AI across the whole SDLC. Built for engineers and dev teams, and led by Rye Smith, Claude Ambassador for Australia.

1-day intensive
Up to 12 seats
Hands-on — laptops required
Adelaide CBD
Now booking June–November 2026 workshops
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Run by Rye Smith — Claude Ambassador for Australia · Anthropic-recognised community lead
What you'll learn

The full AI-assisted engineering stack

This is broader than a single-tool course. Over one classroom day in Adelaide you cover every layer of AI-assisted engineering — from picking the right agentic tool to evals, security and governance — with hands-on labs on your own machine.

Pick the right agentic tool for the job

A clear-eyed comparison of Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot — strengths, trade-offs and where each one actually wins. Leave knowing what to standardise on.

Prompt engineering for real code

Repeatable prompting patterns for generation, review, refactoring and test-writing — plus context management with CLAUDE.md and the equivalents in other tools.

Agentic workflows you can trust

Multi-step tasks, autonomous file editing, MCP servers and custom tooling — and a practical framework for deciding when to trust automation and when to keep a human in the loop.

AI across the whole SDLC

Embed AI at every stage — planning, code review, documentation, test generation and incident response — not just the autocomplete in your editor.

Evals, security and governance

Test the quality of AI-generated output, spot the security pitfalls, and set the team conventions and guardrails that make AI safe to ship in a production engineering org.

Measure productivity honestly

Cut through the hype. Learn what AI-assisted engineering genuinely speeds up, what it doesn't, and how to measure developer productivity without fooling yourself.

Curriculum

Five modules, one day

We move from the agentic tooling landscape through prompt engineering and agentic workflows to embedding AI across the SDLC and governing it safely — all in one classroom day, with a hands-on lab after every module.

01

The AI-Assisted Engineering Landscape

Map the field. We compare the leading agentic coding tools head-to-head and get every laptop in the room set up with a working toolchain you can take back to your team.

  • Claude Code vs Cursor vs Copilot — a head-to-head comparison
  • Where each tool wins, and where each one falls short
  • Setting up your toolchain — CLI, editor and account configuration
  • Choosing what to standardise on across an engineering org
02

Prompt Engineering for Code

The core craft. Repeatable prompting patterns for generating, reviewing, refactoring and test-writing code — and the context management that makes them reliable.

  • Prompting for generation, review, refactor and test-writing
  • Context management — feeding the model the right code
  • CLAUDE.md and equivalents — persistent project context
  • Prompt patterns that hold up across a real codebase
03

Agentic Workflows

Beyond autocomplete. Multi-step autonomous tasks, file editing, MCP servers and custom tooling — plus a framework for when to trust the agent and when not to.

  • Multi-step agentic tasks and autonomous file editing
  • MCP servers — connecting AI to your tools and data
  • Building custom tools and integrations
  • When to trust automation, and when to keep a human in the loop
04

AI Across the SDLC

Embed AI at every stage of the software lifecycle — not just in the editor. Planning, code review, docs, tests and incident response, all AI-assisted.

  • AI in planning and technical design
  • AI-assisted code review and pull-request workflows
  • Documentation and test generation at scale
  • AI in incident response and on-call workflows
05

Evals, Security & Governance

Make it safe to ship. Test the quality of AI output, understand the security pitfalls, set team conventions, and measure developer productivity honestly.

  • Evals — testing the quality of AI-generated output
  • Security pitfalls of AI-assisted engineering
  • Team conventions and governance for AI in engineering
  • Measuring developer productivity honestly
Why Adelaide

Built for the Adelaide engineering scene

Adelaide has quietly become one of Australia's most interesting engineering markets, and Lot Fourteen is the reason. The innovation precinct on North Terrace — home to the Australian Space Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and a dense cluster of defence and deep-tech firms — has given the city a concentration of software talent that punches well above a 1.4 million population. Engineering teams here are building genuinely hard systems, and they want AI tooling that holds up under that scrutiny.

The Osborne Naval Shipyard and the AUKUS submarine program have pulled a wave of defence-software work into Adelaide, and that work comes with exacting governance, security and traceability requirements. Add the space-tech engineers around Lot Fourteen, the health and research software teams near the BioMed City precinct on North Terrace, and a steady graduate pipeline from the University of Adelaide and UniSA, and you have a market where 'can we trust the AI output?' is not a hypothetical — it is a procurement question. This workshop is built for exactly that audience.

We run AI Engineering Workshops in the Adelaide CBD, walkable from North Terrace, Rundle Mall and King William Street, so teams from Lot Fourteen and the surrounding precincts can spend the day in the labs and be back at their desks the next morning. It is a 1-day, hands-on intensive — bring a laptop and a real codebase. Want a deeper, dedicated day on Claude Code specifically? See our Claude Code Training in Adelaide.

Rye Smith — Claude Ambassador for Australia
Claude Ambassador AU
Your trainer

Rye Smith

Claude Ambassador for Australia & Lead Workshop Trainer

Rye is Australia's Claude Ambassador and an AI strategist who has helped thousands of professionals understand and ship with Claude. He runs hands-on, classroom-style workshops in every capital city — demystifying Claude Code, Claude Coworker, and the agentic workflows that are reshaping how Australian teams work.

  • Claude Ambassador for Australia

    Anthropic-recognised community lead

  • Certified Claude Code trainer

    Hands-on agentic workflows since 2024

  • n8n Ambassador (APAC)

    Cross-tool automation expert

  • 1,000+ professionals trained

    Workshops in 11 Australian cities

Workshops in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, Gold Coast, Newcastle & Auckland.
At a glance

The day at a glance

Duration

1-day intensive

Format

Classroom + hands-on (laptops required)

Audience

Engineers, dev teams, tech leads

Class size

Up to 12 seats

Certificate

Included (Spruik / Claude Ambassador AU)

Location

Adelaide CBD

Want Claude-Code-specific depth?

This workshop covers the whole AI-assisted engineering stack. If your Adelaide team wants a deep, dedicated day on Claude Code specifically — the CLI, agentic workflows, MCP and the Agent SDK — see our dedicated Claude Code Training.

Claude Code Training in Adelaide
FAQs

Questions about the Adelaide workshop

How much is the AI Engineering Workshop in Adelaide?
A$1,295 per seat, or A$995 per seat when three or more engineers book from the same organisation. The price is fully inclusive of the classroom day, all materials, morning tea and lunch, certification and 30 days of post-workshop email support.
How is this different from your Claude Code Training?
Claude Code Training is a deep, dedicated course on one tool — Claude Code. AI Engineering Workshops is broader: it teaches the full AI-assisted engineering stack, comparing Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot, and covering prompt engineering, evals, MCP, governance and embedding AI across the whole SDLC. If you want Claude-Code-specific depth, take that course — see our dedicated Claude Code Training in Adelaide.
Who should attend this workshop?
It is built for software engineers, development teams, tech leads and engineering managers. The strongest outcomes come from sending a whole team or squad together so everyone leaves with shared conventions. We assume you write code for a living — this is not a no-code course.
What should I bring on the day?
A laptop is required — Mac, Windows or Linux — along with its power cable. Bring a real codebase you are comfortable working in during the hands-on labs. We send a setup guide a week ahead so your toolchain is installed and ready before you arrive.
Do we need to use Claude Code specifically?
No. The workshop is tool-agnostic by design — we compare Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot and help you decide what to standardise on. You will get hands-on time with the agentic tooling regardless of which assistant your team eventually adopts.
Can my company expense it?
Yes. We issue tax invoices with a full GST breakdown to your company name and ABN. Most attendees claim the workshop as professional development, and we can send a quote for finance or procurement approval before you book.
Can we run this privately for our Adelaide engineering team?
Yes. We run private cohorts at your Adelaide office for teams of 6 to 30 engineers, with the curriculum tailored to your stack, your existing tooling and the specific workflows you want to improve. Pricing is per-day rather than per-seat — contact us with your team size for a tailored proposal.
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Limited to 12 seats

Level up your Adelaide engineering team

A 1-day classroom intensive in Adelaide CBD on the full AI-assisted engineering stack. Up to 12 seats per cohort.

A$1,295 per seat · A$995 per seat for groups of 3+ from the same organisation.