What I'm doing with AI these days

A while ago, Trevor McKendrick asked what people are using AI for these days and I answered him. Here's a follow-up. I've forked a WebAssembly fork of Helix, my favorite text editor, and I'm hosting it for my own use on the Web. This is going way better than I expected it would: I can port only the features I need, AI is great at fixing bugs, and latency is low. There's much more to say about this project, but for now: I'm actually using it, it actually works as intended, and it's magical. I've been trying to learn Galois theory properly for over 20 years now. I could pass the tests in college, but I never quite got my head around it. I've tried many approaches to learning this, including several different textbooks, but some combination of limitations (certainly including misunderstood foundations) has held me back.1 The amazing progress in AI-as-math-tutor is, therefore, both a chance to work on a decades-long goal and a test case for the actual efficacy of using AI as a math tutor.…

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