AI Engineering Workshops Darwin
A full classroom day on the entire AI-assisted engineering stack, in the centre of Darwin. 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.
The full AI-assisted engineering stack
This is broader than a single-tool course. Over one classroom day in Darwin 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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Built for the Darwin engineering scene
Darwin is a small engineering market with an outsized strategic role, and that combination makes AI-assisted development especially worth getting right. As Australia's gateway to Southeast Asia and the site of some of the country's most important defence installations, the Top End runs serious software work — but local engineering teams are lean, often have to cover a wide surface area, and rarely have the luxury of a large platform team. AI tooling that genuinely multiplies a small team's output is not a nice-to-have here; it is leverage.
The work itself clusters around a few pillars. Defence and government software tied to RAAF Base Darwin, Robertson Barracks and the Larrakeyah precinct carries strict security and governance requirements. The resources sector — anchored by the Inpex Ichthys LNG facility on Darwin Harbour — drives industrial and operations software. And Charles Darwin University, along with NT Government digital teams, rounds out a market that is under-served by structured engineering training. A tool-agnostic workshop comparing Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot, plus a hard look at evals and governance, gives Darwin engineers a fast way to catch up to southern-capital practice.
We run AI Engineering Workshops in the Darwin CBD, close to the Waterfront Precinct and Mitchell Street, so a whole engineering team can attend together in a single day rather than flying south for training. It is a 1-day, hands-on intensive — bring a laptop and a real codebase for the labs. If your team wants a deeper, dedicated day on Claude Code specifically, see our Claude Code Training in Darwin.
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
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
Darwin CBD
Want Claude-Code-specific depth?
This workshop covers the whole AI-assisted engineering stack. If your Darwin 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.
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A 1-day classroom intensive in Darwin 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.