🍳 A hands-on AI workshop in Sydney
Learn the repeatable recipe for shipping AI-first apps
One-day Sydney workshop. No coding experience required — you leave with a deployed app.
- Build with an AI agent, sketch to deploy
- Ticket includes club access
- A recipe you can run again on any idea
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AI Workshop — Curious Kitchen
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See the kitchen in action
Watch a short film from the kitchen, then tap any photo to take a closer look at what past chefs built and experienced.
Everyone ships by end of day — you leave with a working, deployed app you built yourself.
What is Curious Kitchen?
A workshop that turns into a membership
Curious Kitchen is an in-person workshop where you practise the craft of building software with an AI agent. We cook up a meal-planning app together because everyone understands recipes — but what you're really walking away with is a process you can apply to any idea: a CRM, a fitness tracker, a personal tool, a side project.
An in-person workshop
One hands-on day in Sydney. You cook up a real, working AI app alongside an AI agent — and everyone ships a deployed app by end of day.
A club you join
Your ticket is your membership. Participants get access to the club — the community of fellow chefs, the directory of what they shipped, and session recaps from every cohort.
A repeatable workflow
Members get extra resources and full documentation of the workshop material — the Cookbook and the Pantry — so the recipe you learn on the day is one you can run again on any idea.
💬 What people are saying
Word from past chefs
“Thanks again for an incredible workshop Joshua! My obsession with Cursor has exponentially deepened. Cannot recommend this workshop highly enough. The care and thought put into it was excellent, and the skills and workflows I came away with have truly levelled up my product design practice.”
“It was such an epic day!! So glad I signed up last year, the wait was worth it. It has opened doors for me personally in my AI vibe coding journey. Highly recommend — even to complete beginners!”
“For someone who isn't a developer, an IDE can feel like a wall. Cursor's agent lowers that barrier... I've worked with Josh and seen his passion for teaching. I'd recommend his sessions to anyone looking to level up from vibe-coding.”
“What a powerful learning experience. The way the workshop was structured made complex AI workflows feel approachable and exciting. I really appreciated how intentional the environment was — supportive, hands on, and deeply practical.”
“Joshua hosted Cursor Cafe followed by a hands-on session where I got to build a full recipe app in the span of 2 hours! Four years of rust disappeared in an afternoon... Your "dormant" skills aren't dead. They're waiting for the right moment and right tools.”
The in-demand skill
From vibe coding to a craft you can repeat
Building well alongside an AI agent is fast becoming one of the most valuable skills in tech — and it's a craft you can practise. The workshop teaches the repeatable moves: sketching ideas, prototyping in small pieces, and shipping iteratively.
Across the day, you'll learn to:
- Recognise the decision the agent is asking you to make
- Answer it confidently with a simple framework
- Keep the work small enough to test as you go
- Tell when to push forward, pause, or roll back
- Take the same moves home to your own ideas
Partway through the day, your agent will pause and ask something like: "Where should we store the artwork for each recipe?" Without the recipe, that prompt is intimidating — you click through and hope. With it, you recognise the moment, know the trade-off, and give a confident answer.
What you'll cook up
A deployed app with frontier AI baked in
These are the examples we cook together — the same recipe lets you add the AI features your own ideas need.
Never meal-plan again
Drop a Claude-powered agent inside your app to plan the week for you — pick the recipes, build the shopping list, mind the leftovers.
You'll practise: Giving an agent a job inside your app and letting it earn its keep.
Talk to your app
Add an in-app assistant that can read and update your data — "add strawberries to my list", "plan dinners for next week".
You'll practise: Giving an agent tools, scoping its powers, and integrating it into your UI.
Cook hands-free
A voice assistant scoped to one screen — ask for ingredients, start timers, talk through the steps with your hands covered in flour.
You'll practise: Prototyping a feature standalone before integrating it.
Custom artwork, your style
Generate consistent illustrations for your recipes in a visual style you choose — Riso prints, watercolour, photography, whatever you like.
You'll practise: Prompting for visual consistency and answering the agent's design decisions.
Everyone follows the same recipe, but every app turns out different — your design choices, your features, your taste.
👥 Who it's for
Is this kitchen for you?
Designers at any level
- Already vibe-coding and want structure
- Comfortable in Figma, curious about code
- Prototype without waiting on engineering
Product managers
- Understand technical feasibility
- Build proof-of-concepts independently
- Test ideas with real prototypes
Developers & curious builders
- Want repeatable moves, not one-off tricks
- Ship side-projects fast and keep them shippable
- See how voice, chat and image fit together
The common thread: everyone here wants to stop relying on luck with AI and start relying on a craft they can repeat — on their own ideas, on their own time.
⏱️ How the day flows
Six hours, three courses
Hands-on exercises, collaborative problem-solving, plenty of pastries, and 1:1 support whenever you get stuck.
Part 1 · 2 hours
Set up & ship
- Set your kitchen up: Cursor settings, agent modes
- Run a starter app on your laptop
- Plan your database in Notion using an MCP
- Deploy your first version to the internet
☕ Break
Part 2 · 2 hours
Shape the app
- Sketch your screens on paper
- Voice-prompt the agent into a working UI
- Use plan mode for the bigger moves
- Build out your design system, then tweak the look with design mode
🍱 Lunch
Part 3 · 2 hours
Add the AI
- Three frontier AI features, each prototyped first
- Conversation, voice, image — pick what you need
- Weave each one into your app
- Re-deploy and share your link
🎉 Ship & share
📦 What's included
One ticket, a lot in the basket
🗓️ On the day
- 💻 A ready-to-go starter project
- 🎨 FigJam board with visual exercises and a shared space
- 🥐 Morning tea, lunch, and refreshments
- 🆘 Built-in troubleshooting your agent can read alongside you
- 🧑🏫 Small group with 1:1 support whenever you get stuck
🎁 After the workshop
- 📖 Lifetime access to the Cookbook — full documentation of the workshop material
- 🧺 The Pantry — downloadable code packages to extend or remix
- 💬 Exclusive community of fellow chefs
- 👀 The Chefs directory — see what other participants built
- 📰 Session recaps and news from every cohort
The biggest thing in your ticket
🔄 Free access to every future version of this course
We rebuild this workshop every two months as the tools, models, and best practices change. Pay once, and every new edition lands in your inbox — fresh starter projects, updated recipes, new AI features — for as long as we're running it. The craft compounds, and so does what you take home.
✅ What you'll need
- 💻 A laptop with Cursor installed
- 💳 A Cursor Pro subscription (~$30 AUD/month) — required
- 🌱 A willingness to experiment and learn out loud
You don't need a GitHub account, command-line experience, or any prior coding. Anything else we use on the day is free, and we'll set it up together. Detailed setup instructions go out one week before the workshop.
👨🏫 Your instructor — Joshua Crowley
Josh is a seasoned designer and educator with over 10 years of experience building digital services for organisations like the ABC, CHOICE, Time Out and the University of Canberra — and teaching experience with General Assembly and UTS. He's a Cursor Ambassador, organises the Sydney Cursor meetup, and built his own AI app for dads, tinytalkingtodos.com.
More at joshuacrowley.com.
❓ Good to know
Frequently asked
Do I need to know how to code?
No coding experience required. The workshop assumes you're non-technical — you don't even have to work in tech. The goal is to learn enough to build your own personal software so you can practise.
I already use Cursor. Will I learn anything new?
Yes — this isn't a tour of Cursor features. It's about the craft of working with an agent: when to plan, when to prototype, when to start fresh, when to ship. Even experienced users tend to skip the moves that make this sustainable.
What if I want to build something other than a recipe app?
Everyone builds the recipe app during the workshop (it's our teaching vehicle), but the patterns transfer directly to any AI-first application — a CRM, a fitness tracker, a personal tool, a side project.
How do I get access to the members area?
Buy a workshop ticket on this page. Once payment completes, your email is added to the member list automatically — sign in with a magic link using the same address.
Upcoming workshop
AI Workshop — Curious Kitchen
Build an AI-powered recipe app from scratch in one day
- Small group with 1:1 support
- Pre-configured starter codebase
- Morning tea, lunch, and refreshments
- Lifetime access to workshop materials + curiouskitchen.club
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Paid tickets include lifetime access to curiouskitchen.club — the Cookbook, Pantry, Chefs, and News. After checkout, sign in with a magic link using the same email.