Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
by TonyAlicea10 on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:27PM
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We’re going to disagree about the quality of LLM learning experiences.
As an educator I’ve used them a lot for myself and in teaching others. Good for one-off topics if you check facts and a lot of human educators have built good quality content that it rips off.
LLMs are rather terrible at an extended progressive curriculum.
That said, the core thesis was simple: it’s dangerous to teach children to trust LLMs.
Not what they are. That they’re right. Which they aren’t. A lot.
You said you largely agreed with that. So, what’s the approach within this service to mitigate that?
I appreciate you responding but you’re throwing a lot of “but X” when the question is “what about Y”.
As an educator I’ve used them a lot for myself and in teaching others. Good for one-off topics if you check facts and a lot of human educators have built good quality content that it rips off.
LLMs are rather terrible at an extended progressive curriculum.
That said, the core thesis was simple: it’s dangerous to teach children to trust LLMs.
Not what they are. That they’re right. Which they aren’t. A lot.
You said you largely agreed with that. So, what’s the approach within this service to mitigate that?
I appreciate you responding but you’re throwing a lot of “but X” when the question is “what about Y”.