Course readings grouped by act, plus i³ - the Idea Inspiration Incubator.
Course readings open an in-site reader version with the publisher one click away. i³ entries are quick bookmarks - the title links straight to the source.
Joe Wilkins · Futurism · May 9, 2026
Employers raise concerns about graduates who leaned on AI through college. Anchors the class conversation about whether and how to use AI on your own work.
Frank Landymore · Futurism · March 14th, 2026
"It's driving so many of us up the wall," one told The Guardian in a new piece that interviewed more than a dozen professors in the humanities.
Alice Speri · The Guardian · March 10th, 2026
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
Joe Wilkens · Futurism · April 7th, 2026
Everyone now kind of sounds the same.
Frank Landymore · Futurism · January 18th, 2026
Where we are today, we're not seeing it.
O'Ryan Johnson · The Register · Jan15, 2026
"So then that's not losing a job to AI. That is a financial decision masquerading as an AI job loss. They're just saying: 'Well, we're hoping we'll fill it with AI at some point.' So that is a very different proposition than AI is actively stealing all these jobs."
Ronald Purser · Current Affairs · Dec 1, 2025
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
Thomas Westerholm · Newsweek · Apr 10, 2026
We wanted to ensure that the tools we were using to measure learning were still meaningful in the era of genAI,
Interesting applications of AI - especially ones targeted at making tools. Collected as inspiration for the Act 3 build and for spotting where the field is going next.
Walt Maciborski · CBS Austin · May 8, 2026
How fast non-developers are shipping working apps with AI assist - useful framing for the Act 3 tool builds and a touchpoint for the spec-driven-vs-vibecoding distinction.
Every tool the course uses earns a literacy deck - what it is, the core concepts, what we use it for, what else it does. As decks get built, the “Deck coming” badges flip to “Deck ready” and the tool name becomes clickable.
Service
The course website. Orientation, activities, library, audit - all live here.
Software
The in-class IDE - markdown spec on the left, AI-generated code in the middle, rendered page on the right.
Service
Version control and deployment home. Every page you ship has a GitHub repo behind it.
Software
The local AI inference server. The box in this room serving the models you'll prompt and spec against.
Service
The plumbing that lets the local AI reach a public URL without exposing the classroom network.
Hardware
RTX 4090, RTX 5070 Ti, AMD R9700 - the machines running the local AI you use every day.
Supplementary curriculum lives here. Each bonus activity pairs short multiple-choice items with a written response, anchored to the work students have already done in the regular Week-by-Week flow.
Teacher must grant access
Bonus activities aren’t open by default. Mr. Muggivan unlocks them per student when they’re appropriate - talk to him in class if you want one to count.
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