Why AI Learning Tools Fail, and What Would Actually Work

In this article, I look at why most AI learning products fail the students they claim to help, what decades of cognitive science research say about how people actually learn, and what a genuinely effective AI-powered learning tool would look like.

What current AI learning tools actually do

Spend any time on social media and you will see the ads. An AI that explains any concept. A chatbot that tutors you like a personal teacher. Upload your textbook and ask it anything. Learn faster, study smarter, ace your exams. The technology is impressive. The research says most of it does not work, and some of it makes learning worse.

What Coziza Left Behind

The final chapter of the Coziza story — why it shut down, lessons on marketplace businesses, and a free aerial footage library for Accra.

Building a Testing Infrastructure for AI-Assisted Development

When AI writes most of your code, the guardrails are the product. Here is how we built 10 layers of automated quality checks so that if AI-generated code passes, we can trust it — and if it does not, it never ships.