Hello everyone

We’re excited to announce a hands-on workshop for developers, engineers, and AI practitioners who want to go beyond auto-complete and truly pair with AI across the software development lifecycle. This workshop is hosted by The Fifth Elephant in Bangalore (and remote for those who want to join the live stream).

🗓️ Date and time: Saturday, 22 November; 10 AM to 3 PM
⏰ Duration: 5 hours
Format: In-person + livestream for The Fifth Elephant members

Why attend?

AI assistants today are capable of much more than code completion. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to use AI tools and models effectively across the entire SDLC - from design to coding, testing, and documentation, transforming them into intelligent collaborators that enhance productivity and quality.
Through guided exercises and real-world examples, you’ll explore how to use the right prompts, chat modes, and context files to make AI work for you, not the other way around.

You’ll learn how to craft effective prompts, chat modes, and instruction files, and use MCP to unlock AI’s potential.

Agenda highlights:

Part 1 – Foundations

Understanding AI assistants beyond auto-complete
Prompt Engineering basics and hands-on exercises for user story grooming and design brainstorming

Part 2 – Context & Instruction Design

Writing effective context files and instruction sets
Hands-on: Create your own coding and documentation standards

Part 3 – Development & Testing with AI

Pair programming with Copilot
Hands-on: Implementing small features, generating tests, and detecting code smells using reviewer chat modes

Part 4 – Documentation & Wrap-up

Auto-generating project documentation and diagrams
Best practices for team adoption and real-world use cases

If you are a developer, tech lead, architect, QA, tester, product owner, manager - or anyone curious about using AI as a true SDLC partner and not just an auto-complete tool, you should attend this workshop.

Prerequisites

Participants must have:

VS Code, GitHub account,
GitHub Copilot with sonnet models (mandatory)

🎟️ Open to The Fifth Elephant annual members

Learn more about memberships at https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant#memberships

Limited to 40 participants, seats available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

See you at the workshop!

PS: If you’re exploring how prompt engineering scales into real-world AI systems, you should definitely check out what my colleague Suman Paul Choudhury is doing on Saturday, 8 November, in Bangalore.
He will run a hands-on workshop on building multi-agent workflows with LangGraph - where prompts evolve into agents that can reason, remember, and collaborate. 🧩

If Akash’s and my workshop is about teaching LLMs to think, Suman’s is about teaching them to work together. Expect deep dives into RAGs, memory, and agent-to-agent communication - and walk away with a working prototype by the end of the day.

📅 8 Nov | Bengaluru
🔗 Register: http://has.gy/Zp1S

Half the seats are already taken - only 20 spots left. Go grab one before the agents do 😉

Mastering prompt engineering across the software development lifecycle

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