AI Developer Bootcamp: Chatbots, RAG, and Agents in a Day

The AI Developer Bootcamp: Chatbots, RAG, and Agents in a Day is an immersive, full-day training designed to take developers from foundational understanding to hands-on implementation of cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Led by Slingshot’s AI engineering team, this bootcamp combines expert-led instruction, live demos, and guided build sessions. You’ll learn to work directly with large language models (LLMs), build your own chatbot, and create intelligent agents capable of reasoning and performing multi-step tasks.

By the end of the day, you’ll have:

• A functional AI chatbot built from scratch.
• A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for chatting with your own data.
• An AI agent capable of taking actions through tool execution.
• A working multi-agent research system built and deployed during the session.

Whether you’re a developer exploring LLMs for the first time or an engineer ready to build intelligent systems, this bootcamp gives you the practical skills to go from concept to creation.

Info: Welcome, introductions, and environment setup. Overview of tools, repos, and goals for the day.

Info: Understand how LLMs work, manage context windows, and structure prompts effectively.

Info: Hands-on build: connect to an LLM, manage chat history, and deploy a functional chatbot.

Info: Extend your chatbot to handle document-based responses by adding retrieval.

Info: Learn how agents perform reasoning and execute tasks—then build one yourself.

Info: Create a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and connect it to your agent for tool use.

Info: Develop and demonstrate a system of collaborating agents for research or synthesis tasks.

Info: Reflection, project sharing, and resources for continued AI development.

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