Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

devenjarvis

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Hey HN!Lathe is an experiment in using LLMs to teach me something new, instead of doing the work for me.

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You prompt something like "/lathe build a 3D slicer in Erlang", run `lathe serve` to spin up a local webapp, and read it in your browser.

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Every tutorial comes with the things that have made self-learning a pleasant experience for me in the past:- table of contents that follows along as you scroll - side-notes that nudge you to think - exercises for the reader - sources backing up the content that you can use to take you deeperTo help make up for the lack of human brainpower behind the tutorial, you can also ask questions about the content, have another LLM verify the tutorial actually compiles and runs, or...

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