Teaching an AI about Educates
The way we direct AI coding agents has changed significantly over the past couple of years. Early on, the interaction was purely conversational. You'd open a chat, explain what you wanted, provide whatever context seemed relevant, and hope the model could work with it. If it got something wrong or went down the wrong path, you'd correct it and try again. It worked, but it was ad hoc. Every session started from scratch. Every conversation required re-establishing context.
What's happened since then is a steady progression toward giving agents more structured, persistent knowledge to work with. Each step in that progression has made agents meaningfully more capable, to the point where they can now handle tasks that would have been unrealistic even a year ago. We've been putting these capabilities to work on a specific challenge: getting an AI to author interactive workshops for the Educates training platform. In our previous posts we talked about why workshop content is actually a good fit for AI generation. Here we want to explain how we've been making that work in practice.