Textbooks are a cornerstone of education, but they have a fundamental limitation: they are a one-size-fits-all medium. Any new material or alternative representation requires arduous human effort, so that textbooks cannot be adapted in a scalable manner. We present an approach for transforming and augmenting textbooks using generative AI, adding layers of multiple representations and personalization while maintaining content integrity and quality. We refer to the system built with this approach as Learn Your Way. We report pedagogical evaluations of the different transformations and augmentations, and present the results of a a randomized control trial, highlighting the advantages of learning with Learn Your Way over regular textbook usage. — Read More
Daily Archives: October 3, 2025
Your free one-stop guide to AI in 2025
The only guide you’ll ever need to master AI and LLMs.
I’ve been wanting to make this for a while now, but the project’s been pushed constantly due to research deadlines.
But here you are: the one-stop guide to modern AI research. — Read More
Agile is Out, Architecture is Back
Software development has always been defined by its extremes. In the early days, we planned everything. Specs were sacred. Architecture diagrams came before a single line of code. And every change felt like steering a cargo ship — slow, bureaucratic, and heavily documented.
Then came Agile, and the pendulum swung hard in the other direction. We embraced speed, iteration, and imperfection. “Working software over comprehensive documentation” became the battle cry of a new generation. Shipping fast was more important than getting it right the first time. And to be fair, that shift unlocked enormous productivity. It changed the culture of software for good.
Now, we’re entering a new era — one driven by AI tools that can generate code from a sentence. Tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are reshaping what it means to be a developer. It’s not just about writing code anymore — it’s about designing the environment in which code gets written.
And that pendulum? It’s swinging back again. — Read More
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