How to Use AI Agents to Automate Your Entire Data Prep and ML Model Training Workflow

You know that tedious part where you manually clean data, check for nulls and outliers, transform columns, and tune everything until your model performs well? AI agents can do all of that automatically now. Instead of running pd.info(), dropping duplicates, and tweaking features by hand, you can have Claude or similar AI agents handle the entire exploratory data analysis (EDA) pipeline and even set up model training for you. This guide walks through how to set up AI agents in your existing VS Code + OpenAI setup to autonomously handle data preparation, feature engineering, and model configuration—so you can skip straight to results. We'll cover the practical steps to get your AI agent working on real datasets.