Learning in the Age of AI.

Three essays on the asymmetry between assistance and capability, with a diagnostic in the middle so the argument is not merely consumed. The exercises matter as much as the reading; skipping them is the failure mode the path is trying to surface.

Five steps · roughly two weeks · two essays, one diagnostic, two more.

• № 01 · Read
  Fluency Is Not Understanding

  The opening argument: recognising an explanation is not the same as being able to rebuild it. The most fluent moments are often the least durable. Read it before the diagnostic so the diagnostic has something to land against.
  14 min · essay
• № 02 · Read
  AI as Gym Equipment, Not Prosthesis

  Two ways of using the same instrument, with opposite consequences for the mind that uses it. The taxonomy here is the design principle the rest of the lab is built on.
  9 min · essay
• № 03 · Diagnose
  Find the buried error

  Five flawed proofs, each with exactly one invalid inference. Your job is to find it and name what licenses the legitimate move instead. The first time you do this you will likely circle the wrong step. That is the point — a diagnostic that confirms what you already believed would not be a diagnostic.
  20–30 min · tutor
• № 04 · Read
  Constructive Struggle

  After you have struggled productively (or unproductively) with a flawed proof, this essay is about how to tell the two apart. What desirable difficulty looks like in practice, and how to design environments that produce it without descending into mere obstruction.
  11 min · essay
• № 05 · Apply
  Run the diagnostic again — different case

  A second pass on a fresh case is where the lesson becomes habit rather than insight. The "next case" button cycles you forward; aim for one a day for a week, not five in one sitting.
  5 min · daily