By Lew Ludwig

Image generated using Gemini, with prompts created by ChatGPT.

Hey Professor Ludwig, look what I made!

It was about two-thirds of the way through the semester, and Isaac stopped by my office before the start of class to show me something he had made.

Isaac is an interesting kid. I remember at the start of the semester, he was a bit standoffish. He did not have a good experience with his previous math class, so he entered mine with a bit of trepidation that came off as guardedness.

What he showed me was a slick true-false app he had created using Claude Cowork. If you are not familiar, Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agentic AI tool that lets anyone, no coding required, describe what they want and get back a working app — which is how Isaac ended up with a polished app instead of just a chatbot. He fed it our course notes, the weekly practice sets, old tests. The app knew, more or less, how I ask questions. It built him something that looked good and worked well.…