Great idea, to include learning into the regular work.
Can you explain how the lessons are generated?
It looks like there are no pre-generated lessons, they are created on the fly by the AI. Wouldn't it be possible to write a skill or similar that does the same with your existing coding agent?
After agent defined a general direction and send the proposed course via MCP, we search the internet to generate the structure of the course (what to include, what requirements are necessary etc.), then we give it access to a number of tools that create interactive materials in the course, to make learning more engaging.
We consulted behavioural scientists, and decided that the effortful activity of learning has to be separated from effortless-ish activity of AI-assisted coding, to make lessons more engaging. We also can control UI/UX much better than if lessons were delivered via CLI.
Very cool! Why was and the entire networking stack straight forward, but not HTTP (and TCP)? Could you take inspiration form other projects for things like DNS?
Up to TCP most protocols are very straight forward, atleast getting them to work semi reliable. But then TCP explodes in complexity with all the state management and possible paths a connection can take.
HTTP is mostly annoying because of all the text parsing :D
Yeah...HTTP/1 is one of those weird cases where the older protocol is considerably more difficult to implement correctly than the newer ""more complex"" standard. This is especially true if you want your server to work with they myriad of questionably compliant clients out in the world.
HTTP/3 might have been easier, and using QUIC+HTTP/3 in your hobby OS is a fun flex :)
I don’t think that http/3 is easier to implement than http/1.1 especially since h3 is stateful where http/1.1 is not. Especially not when everything should be working correctly and securely because the spec does not always tell about these things. Oh and multiplexing is quite a hard thing to do especially when you are also dealing with a state machine and each of your clients can be malicious.
I can't speak to http/3 (I haven't tried to impl it), but I can say that a bare-bones http/2 is very easy to implement because it doesn't try to pretend to be prose.
Interesting! The article talks mostly about how this all worked, but rarely about what was actually discussed. Which opinions of the party do you like or support?
I’d prefer not to dive into policy positions here — the main focus of my post was the product-building process and what it was like to work behind the scenes.
Can you explain how the lessons are generated?
It looks like there are no pre-generated lessons, they are created on the fly by the AI. Wouldn't it be possible to write a skill or similar that does the same with your existing coding agent?
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