CASE STUDY / THEN CAME AI
Alkemy Brought the Discipline:
AI Coding Agents Brought the Speed
How Team d²l℠ discovered a winning combination
Give AI coding agents the structure they need to accelerate your team’s machine learning (ML) projects even further.
Project Overview
Recipe for a Repeat Win
Across the ML lifecycle, Alkemy made the difference by stepping in where AI coding agents struggle on their own.
AI coding agents bring a huge amount of machine learning knowledge to the table, but every session starts from an empty chat. They don’t inherently know what success looks like, what decisions were made last week, and how to navigate scattered notebooks and scripts.
Alkemy was built to give data scientists a complete operating framework for the ML lifecycle:
- Structured projects
- Reproducible datasets
- Structured experiments
- Artifact management
- Deployment from the same code used in experiments
It became immediately clear that these players could benefit from this coach. Then the team really geeked out to prove the concept - look for videos COMING SOON!
Results
What Team d²l Learned
Across the ML lifecycle, Alkemy made the difference by providing the defense where AI coding agents struggle on their own:
Project Setup
Agents inherited a standard project layout with built-in conventions for code, config, and artifacts.
Building Datasets
Datasets were validated objects agents could reference by name across sessions.
Running Experiments
Experiments and artifacts were tracked automatically, with results and feedback recorded so agents could use prior runs to guide iteration.
Comparing to a Benchmark
Benchmarks and prior runs lived inside the project structure, so agents could compare new results against the current bar.
Deployment
Deployment used the same code path as experiments - no rewrite and no drift.
Handing off Mid-project
New session inherited structure, history, and current state from the framework itself.
Ongoing Maintenance
Lifecycle structure was part of the system, not something the team had to build and maintain.