Free AI universities on GitHub solve the wrong problem, educator says
mdancho84 · x · 2026-10-31
The author argues that "free AI university" curriculum repos on GitHub address the wrong problem — access to knowledge was never the bottleneck; the missing piece is a reason to actually ship. Drawing on 8 years of observing 7,500 students, he found those who followed curricula stayed stuck in tutorial purgatory, while those who built one real system in front of a live instructor, with a deadline and someone watching, actually shipped.
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