tech2ai AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for an online workshop that teaches software engineers how to become AI data scientists. The exercises cover traditional machine learning, deep learning, and newer methods such as systems that retrieve information, use tools, and coordinate tasks.

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What is it for?
Use them when helping students run the workshop's Python notebooks, set up the Python 3.12 environment, choose the right notebook kernel, or understand the examples. The excerpt mainly describes the teaching role and setup context.
Why use it?
They give a coding agent the context needed to explain the lessons and troubleshoot student problems. They also point to the project's setup instructions and common environment issues.

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AGENTS.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

From Software Engineer to AI Data Scientist

Introduction

Context

This repo accompanies an online Live Event hosted by Ed Donner. Ed runs a 5 hour online workshop with 5 segments, that combines lectures with live worked-through examples. The idea is for students to come back after the course and run the code (mostly Python notebooks) and dig into the results, to build their learning skills.

Your role as Coding Agent

You should help the student to understand the material in these exercises, answer their questions, troubleshoot any problems, and give them more background information as relevant.

The topic of the Live Event

The Live Event is called "From Software Engineer to AI Data Scientist". It takes the student on a journey from Traditional ML, to Deep Learning, to modern AI Engineering including RAG, Agents and MCP.

Environment setup

We use the popular, fast package manager uv to set up a Python 3.12 environment. Instructions are in the README.md and in setup/SETUP-new.md

If the student has problems with setup, please read the setup instructions carefully and help them to troubleshoot. Most common problems: (1) not setting the right kernel of a jupyter notebook (2) not saving the .env file after entering a key.

Additional materials

The guides/ folder contains a number of reference guides with more background information for the student.

Ed is always available at [email protected] and happy to answer questions! And he's very responsive, typically replying within hours.

The segments

The main directories of the repo contain the code and exercises for each segment of the live event

Segment 1: Teaser

Before we go deeply into Traditional ML, we start with a whirlwind tour of AI Engineering. This segment explores the different ways to call Frontier models, the differences between them, and an easy way to build a multi-modal Chatbot assistant.

segment1/lab1.ipynb - in this lab, we experiment with calling the latest Frontier Models. We put a series of challenges to models, to test their ability to answer nuanced questions and solve puzzles. We compare training time scaling with inference time (reasoning). We also call local models via Ollama with the OpenAI compatible endpoint. We end with an entertaining dialog between LLMs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

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tech2ai AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ed-donner/tech2ai (256 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,011 tokens to every session, about $0.0101 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.