You don't need a tech background.You need the right guide.
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Built for creative professionals / No CS degree required
- 340+
- AI assets created
- 45+
- Original music tracks
- 100
- Day build challenge
The argument
Taste plus process beats credentials.
For twenty years, shipping software required a credential: a degree, a job title, a team of engineers. That gate is gone. AI writes the code now. What it cannot supply is the thing creative professionals already have: taste, an eye for what should exist, and the judgment to know when something is wrong.
What most people are missing is not talent. It is process. The difference between a demo that falls apart and a product people pay for is a repeatable loop: describe it clearly, build it in layers, secure it before it ships, and understand every piece well enough to teach it back.
You are not learning to code. You are learning to direct, and to own what gets built.
That is what Digital Alchemy teaches, and it is how everything on this site was built: by one creative professional directing AI, with a process anyone can learn. No gatekeeping. No rented outcome. Build it, understand it, keep it.
Claude Code skill packs
The skills behind every build.
Flagship free skill
Open source/skill-map
See your whole skill library, graded.
What do you want to do?
Want to build your first app with AI?
More on getting started→Want to learn live instead of alone?
More on the cohort→Want to see what actually ships here?
Everything in Lab Notes→Live program
Vibe Coding Cohort
Four weeks. Twelve live sessions. You ship something real.
The Vibe Coding Cohort is a four-week live program where you build and deploy working applications with AI, starting from no coding background. It runs as twelve sessions over four weeks, taught live, with the whole group building at the same time.
- A working, deployed application you own outright
- The full build loop: describe, scaffold, secure, ship
- Debugging with AI instead of guessing
- Recordings and templates you keep after the program ends
Live online sessions, recorded for anyone who misses one / Dates announced to the waitlist
Join the waitlist
Next cohort dates go to the waitlist first. One email when doors open. Nothing else.
How the cohort works →From the community.
“DB came in and said let's figure it out. Within 30 mins he had it worked out, explained what happened AND helped me publish my first app on Vercel!!!! I've been resistant to learn GitHub, Vercel and Claude for a long time.”
“Now y'all know I'm not technical at all... but hard work pays off. Here's the start of a beautiful thing — learning how to do landing pages was not on my bingo card!”
“Shout out to DB we finished my website yesterday and he was so patient with me, thank you! She's live but I'm still connecting a few things”
From the lab
Who is behind this
Desmond Baker Jr
Desi comes from creative work and teaching, not a computer science degree, which is exactly why this works. He is a Google Gemini Certified Educator who builds real products in public: security tooling, content engines, community platforms, all directed with AI and shipped from the Chicago area.
Digital Alchemy exists because the process he uses is learnable. Every skill pack, tool, and lesson on this site came out of an actual build, not a curriculum committee.
- Gemini Certified Educator
- 10+
- Years in Creative Education
- 340+
- AI Assets Created
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