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We're Building an Open-Source AI That Teaches You Instead of Giving Answers (Here's How to Help)
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We're Building an Open-Source AI That Teaches You Instead of Giving Answers (Here's How to Help)

DEV Community: github·exortic labs·12 days ago
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When we launched Guidey (our open-source AI tutor), the response from developers and educators was immediate:

"Finally, an AI that doesn't just blurt out the answer."

Most AI coding assistants and chatbots are designed to do the work for you. You paste a broken function, it spits out the fix, you move on.

That's great for shipping code on a deadline. It's terrible for learning.

If you want to actually understand data structures, systems design, or math, you need something that works like a human mentor: asking you what you think, pointing out edge cases, sketching diagrams, and giving you small hints when you're stuck.

We just opened up our development roadmap on GitHub, and we're looking for contributors to help build this out in the open.

What We're Building Next

Here are the big engineering challenges we're tackling right now across the stack:

1. The Interactive Blackboard (Three.js & Canvas)

Learning complex topics requires visuals.…

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